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100 1  Isenberg, Nancy,|eauthor. 
245 10 White trash :|bthe 400-year untold history of class in 
       America /|cNancy Isenberg. 
264  1 New York, New York :|bViking,|c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    xvii, 460 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-446) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: Fables we forget by -- Part I: To begin the 
       world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New
       World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of 
       Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed 
       : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's 
       rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's
       cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Part II: 
       Degeneration of the American breed. Pedigree and poor 
       white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; 
       Cowards, poltroons, and mudsills : Civil war as class 
       warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and 
       bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and 
       poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; 
       The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith,
       and LBJ's Great Society -- Part III: The white trash 
       makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and 
       Tammy Faye ; Outing rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and
       Sarah Palin ; America's strange breed : the long legacy of
       white trash. 
520    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. 
520    The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time 
       of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were 
       alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," 
       "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the 
       downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and 
       "sandhillers," known for prematurely-aged children 
       distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, 
       and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and 
       policy, popular literature and scientific theories over 
       four hundred years, history professor Nancy Isenberg 
       upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free 
       society ; where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure
       real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise
       of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, 
       and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues 
       nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. 
       Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed
       slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics –- a widely
       popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that 
       targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at
       the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society and 
       they now haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes 
       Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, 
       white trash have always been at or near the center of 
       major political debates over the character of the American
       identity. 
650  0 Social classes|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Poor white people|zUnited States|xSocial conditions
       |xHistory. 
650  0 Working class white people|zUnited States|xSocial 
       conditions|xHistory. 
650  0 Rednecks|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Mountain people|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Classism|zUnited States|xHistory. 
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