02680cam a2200349 i 4500 333379578 TxAuBib 20171117120000.0 160622s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016302095 9780670785971 0670785970 TxAuBib rda Isenberg, Nancy,. White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / Nancy Isenberg. New York, New York : Viking, [2016] xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-446) and index. Fables we forget by -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. "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,"--NoveList. 20171117. Social classes United States History. Poor whites United States Social conditions History. Working class whites United States Social conditions History. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016302095-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016302095-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016302095-s.html Sample text TXLUC