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050	0	0	_aHN90.S6 _bI84 2016
082	1		_a305.5 ISE _2
100	1		_aIsenberg, Nancy
245	1	0	_aWhite Trash : _bThe 400-Year Untold History of Class in America _c/ Nancy Isenberg
260			_aNew York _b: Viking _c, 2016
300			_a460 p. _b: illus. _c; 25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aFables 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.
520			_aA 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aSocial classes _z-United States _x-History
650		4	_aPoor whites _z-United States _x-Social conditions
650		4	_aWorking class whites _z-United States _x-Social conditions
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