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The Resource White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America, Nancy Isenberg

White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America, Nancy Isenberg

Label
White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America
Title
White trash
Title remainder
the 400-year untold history of class in America
Statement of responsibility
Nancy Isenberg
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party, "--NoveList
Cataloging source
YDXCP
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Isenberg, Nancy
Dewey number
305.5/0973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HN90.S6
LC item number
I84 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Social classes
  • Poor white people
  • Working class white people
Target audience
adult
Label
White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America, Nancy Isenberg
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I: To Begin the World Anew -- Chapter One Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World -- Chapter Two John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia -- Chapter Three Benjamin Franklin's American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity -- Chapter Four Thomas Jefferson's Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class -- Chapter Five Andrew Jackson's Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man -- Part II: Degeneration of the American Breed -- Chapter Six Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds and Clay-Eaters -- Chapter Seven Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare -- Chapter Eight Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics -- Chapter Nine Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression -- Chapter Ten The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- Part III: The White Trash Makeover -- Chapter Eleven Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye -- Chapter Twelve Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
Control code
1667156
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xvii, 460 pages
Isbn
9780670785971
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1667156
  • (OCoLC)925398080
Label
White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America, Nancy Isenberg
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I: To Begin the World Anew -- Chapter One Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World -- Chapter Two John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia -- Chapter Three Benjamin Franklin's American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity -- Chapter Four Thomas Jefferson's Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class -- Chapter Five Andrew Jackson's Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man -- Part II: Degeneration of the American Breed -- Chapter Six Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds and Clay-Eaters -- Chapter Seven Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare -- Chapter Eight Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics -- Chapter Nine Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression -- Chapter Ten The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- Part III: The White Trash Makeover -- Chapter Eleven Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye -- Chapter Twelve Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
Control code
1667156
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xvii, 460 pages
Isbn
9780670785971
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1667156
  • (OCoLC)925398080

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