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Not quite white : white trash and the boundaries of whiteness
Author
Title
Not quite white : white trash and the boundaries of whiteness / Matt Wray.
ISBN
0822338823 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822338734 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
xiii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2021 1855: Paperbound. Manuscript annotations, some text highlighted. Used bookstore stickers on spine and page 4 of cover. From the Claudia Rankine Collection of The Racial Imaginary Institute.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 19, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-210) and index.
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 21st century.
Also listed under
Claudia Rankine Collection of The Racial Imaginary Institute (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States North Carolina Durham.
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