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Not quite white : white trash and the boundaries of whiteness / Matt Wray

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Author:
Wray, Matt 1964-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 213 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2006
Contents:
Introduction: White trash as social difference : groups, boundaries, and inequalities -- Lubbers, crackers, and poor white trash : borders and boundaries in the colonies and the early republic -- Imagining poor whites in the antebellum South : abolitionist and pro-slavery fictions -- "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" : American eugenics and poor white trash -- "The disease of laziness" : crackers, poor whites, and hookworm crusaders in the new South -- Limning the boundaries of whiteness
Topic:
White people--Race identity  Search this
White people--Public opinion  Search this
Rural poor--Public opinion  Search this
Stereotypes (Social psychology)  Search this
Difference (Psychology)  Search this
Social stratification  Search this
Social classes  Search this
Public opinion  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_825683