White Trash : Race and Class in America

Name: White Trash:Race and Class in America
ISBN: 9780203700648

doi:10.4324/9780203700648

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ABSTRACT

This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.

White Trash

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I: Defining and Defying Stereotypes

chapter |26 pages

PART I: DEFINING AND DEFYING STEREOTYPES SUNSET TRAILER PARK

chapter |16 pages

Name Calling: Objectifying "Poor Whites" and "White Trash" in Detroit

chapter |16 pages

Partners in Crime: African Americans and Non-Slaveholding Whites in Antebellum Georgia

chapter |14 pages

Bloody Footprints: Reflections on Growing Up Poor White

part |2 pages

Part II: White Trash Pictures

chapter |24 pages

Crackers and whackers: The White Trashing of Porn

chapter |18 pages

White Trash Girl: The Interview

chapter |24 pages

White Savagery and Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the Media

chapter |20 pages

Can Whiteness Speak? Institutional Anomies, Ontological Disasters, and Three Hollywood Films

part |2 pages

Part III: Producing and Consuming Poor Whites

chapter |16 pages

Trash-O-Nomics

chapter |18 pages

White Trash Religion

chapter |20 pages

Telling Stories of "Queer White Trash": Race, Class, and Sexuality in the Work of Dorothy Allison

chapter |18 pages

Acting Naturally: Cultural Distinction and Critiques of Pure Country

chapter |18 pages

The King of white Trash Culture: Elvis Presley and the Aesthetics of Excess

chapter |3 pages

Contributors