Odd tribes : toward a cultural analysis of white people / John Hartigan Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartigan, John, Jr., 1964-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

White people--United States--Social conditions.

White people--United States--Economic conditions.

White people in popular culture--United States.

White people in popular culture.

Working class white people--United States.

Working class white people.

Rednecks--United States.

Rednecks.

Poor--United States.

Poor.

Poverty--Social aspects--United States.

Poverty.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An ethnographic and theoretical account of the construction of whiteness through the study of the lives of white working class Americans.

Contents:

Picturing the underclass : myth making in the inner city

Blood will tell : the nationalization of white trash

Unpopular culture : the case of white trash

Reading trash : deliverance and the cultural poetics of white trash

Talking trash : white poverty and marked forms of whiteness

Green ghettos and the white underclass

Establishing the fact of whiteness

Locating white Detroit

Object lessons in whiteness : antiracism and the study of white folks

Cultural analysis : the case of race.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-354) and index.

ISBN:

9786613022097

9781283022095

1283022095

9780822387206

0822387204

OCLC:

226068170