White trash : race and class in America / edited by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Physical Description: | 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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.