White trash : [electronic resource] race and class in America / edited by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz.
1997
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Title
White trash : [electronic resource] race and class in America / edited by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz.
Published
New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
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Poor or marginal whites occupy an uncharted space in recent identity studies, particularly because they do not easily fit the model of whiteness-as-power proposed by many multiculturalist or minority discourses. Associated in mainstream culture with "trashy" kitsch or dangerous pathologies rather than with the material realities of economic life, poor whites are treated as degraded caricatures rather than as real people living in conditions of poverty and disempowerment.
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White Trash situates the study of poor whites within the context of several academic disciplines, public-policy analysis, and popular or mass-media representations. Arguing that white racism is directed not only against people of color but also against certain groups of whites, the contributors to this volume explore the ways in which race and class in America are often talked about and represented in hidden, coded, or half-realized ways. In so doing, they demonstrate why the term white trash itself embodies yet another way in which some whites generate a debased "other" through pejorative naming practices.
White Trash situates the study of poor whites within the context of several academic disciplines, public-policy analysis, and popular or mass-media representations. Arguing that white racism is directed not only against people of color but also against certain groups of whites, the contributors to this volume explore the ways in which race and class in America are often talked about and represented in hidden, coded, or half-realized ways. In so doing, they demonstrate why the term white trash itself embodies yet another way in which some whites generate a debased "other" through pejorative naming practices.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Defining and defying stereotypes: Sunset Trailer Park / Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé. Name calling : objectifying "poor whites" and "white trash" in Detroit / John Hartigan, Jr. Partners in crime : African Americans and non-slaveholding whites in antebellum Georgia / Timothy J. Lockley. Bloody footprints : reflections on growing up poor white / Roxanne A. Dunbar
pt. 2. White trash pictures: Crackers and whackers : the white trashing of porn / Constance Penley. White trash girl : the interview / Laura Kipnis with Jennifer Reeder. White savagery and humiliation, or a new racial consciousness in the media / Annalee Newitz. Can whiteness speak? institutional anomies, ontological disasters, and three Hollywood films / Mike Hill
pt. 3. Producing and consuming poor whites: Trash-o-nomics / Doug Henwood. White trash religion / Matt Wray. Telling stories of "queer white trash" : race, class, and sexuality in the work of Dorothy Allison / Jillian Sandell. Acting naturally : cultural distinction and critiques of pure country / Barbara Ching. The king of white trash culture : Elvis Presley and the aesthetics of excess / Gael Sweeney.
pt. 2. White trash pictures: Crackers and whackers : the white trashing of porn / Constance Penley. White trash girl : the interview / Laura Kipnis with Jennifer Reeder. White savagery and humiliation, or a new racial consciousness in the media / Annalee Newitz. Can whiteness speak? institutional anomies, ontological disasters, and three Hollywood films / Mike Hill
pt. 3. Producing and consuming poor whites: Trash-o-nomics / Doug Henwood. White trash religion / Matt Wray. Telling stories of "queer white trash" : race, class, and sexuality in the work of Dorothy Allison / Jillian Sandell. Acting naturally : cultural distinction and critiques of pure country / Barbara Ching. The king of white trash culture : Elvis Presley and the aesthetics of excess / Gael Sweeney.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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