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...

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Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York [u.a.] Routledge 1997
Subjects:	Armoede Blanken Identiteit Sociale klassen Identität Social classes > United States Whites > Race identity > United States Whites > United States > Social conditions Armut Ethnische Identität Weiße Klassenbewusstsein USA United States > Social conditions > 1980- Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	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 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
Physical Description:	272 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:	0415916917 0415916925