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Not quite white : white trash and the boundaries of whiteness / Matt Wray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wray, Matt, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- White people--Race identity.
- Social stratification.
- Rural poor.
- Public opinion.
- United States.
- White people--United States--Public opinion.
- Rural poor--United States--Public opinion.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- Difference (Psychology).
- Social stratification--United States.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822338823
- 0822338734
- 9780822338826
- 9780822338734
- OCLC:
- 68192332
- Publisher Number:
- 9780822338826
- 9780822338734
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