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Author Bottoms, Greg, author.

Title Lowest white boy / Greg Bottoms.

Publication Info. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations.
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Series In place series
In place (Morgantown, W. Va.)
Contents Intro; History Kid; Family Reunion, 1979; New Shoes, 1975; Bullet Hole, 1977; Incident at the Pool, 1977; Thumb, 1975; The Pier, 1976; Hell Day, 1976; Dinner Out, 1978; Poor Preparation, 1977; The Student, 1961; Bus Song, 1976; Parachute, 1977; The Field, 1977; Liberalism, 1977; Home Shopping, 1977; Black People in Iran, 1979; First Car, 1978; History Kids Play Pinball, 1979; The Soda Fountain, 1976; History Kid, Again
Summary "An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson's observation during the civil rights era: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket." Greg Bottoms writes about growing up white and working class in Tidewater, Virginia, during school desegregation in the 1970s. He offers brief stories that accumulate to reveal the everyday experience of living inside complex, systematic racism that is often invisible to economically and politically disenfranchised white southerners--people who have benefitted from racism in material ways while being damaged by it, he suggests, psychologically and spiritually. Placing personal memories against a backdrop of documentary photography, social history, and cultural critique, Lowest White Boy explores normalized racial animus and reactionary white identity politics, particularly as these are collected and processed in the mind of a child."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Bottoms, Greg.
Bottoms, Greg. (OCoLC)fst00442751
Boys -- Virginia -- Hampton -- Biography.
Hampton (Va.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
White people -- Race identity -- Virginia -- History -- 20th century.
African American schoolboys -- Virginia -- Hampton -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
School integration -- Virginia -- Hampton -- Anecdotes.
Racism -- Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Working class -- Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century.
Anti-racism -- Anecdotes.
Hampton (Va.) -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Anti-racism. (OCoLC)fst01742067
Attitude (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00820865
Boys. (OCoLC)fst00837358
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
School integration. (OCoLC)fst01107474
White people -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst01174825
Working class -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01180422
Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
Virginia -- Hampton. (OCoLC)fst01206042
Virginia -- Tidewater Region. (OCoLC)fst01333566
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Bottoms, Greg. Lowest white boy. First edition. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019 9781946684967 1946684961 (DLC) 2018040446 (OCoLC)1050456883
ISBN 9781946684974 (electronic book)
194668497X (electronic book)
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