ABSTRACT
Digging in trash after its been thrown out can be unpleasant, but such work necessarily exposes pieces that can challenge the discursive strategies used to reveal and reinforce the (im)mobility of whiteness. This chapter heeds Thomas K. Nakayama and R. L. Krizek's call to closely examine the instances when White people are pushed to and/or located at the margins, as evidenced in mediated representations of mobile home communities. It not only focuses on race but is equally concerned with how social class contributes to the functionality and lived experiences of whiteness. Strategic whiteness can be found in several assimilationist media sites that seemingly attempt to challenge racism through the incorporation of people of color, but nevertheless reconstitute White dominance. "White trash" functions within the logic of the American class system to maintain the superiority of middle- and upper-class White people.
