The Color of Class Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege
The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege
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Main Author: Moss, Kirby (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press 2003
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Item Description:Biographical note: Kirby Moss lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Main description: "Even though we lived a few blocks away in our neighborhood or sat a seat or two away in elementary school, a vast chasm of class and racial difference separated us from them."—From the IntroductionWhat is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while, at the same time, surrounded by the glowing assumption of racial privilege? Kirby Moss, an African American anthropologist and journalist, goes back to his hometown in the Midwest to examine ironies of social class in the lives of poor whites. He purposely moves beyond the most stereotypical image of white poverty in the U.S.—rural Appalachian culture—to illustrate how poor whites carve out their existence within more complex cultural and social meanings of whiteness. Moss interacts with people from a variety of backgrounds over the course of his fieldwork, ranging from high school students to housewives. His research simultaneously reveals fundamental fault lines of American culture and the limits of prevailing conceptions of social order and establishes a basis for reconceptualizing the categories of color and class.Ultimately Moss seeks to write an ethnography not only of whiteness but of blackness as well. For in struggling with the elusive question of class difference in U.S. society, Moss finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (176 S.)
ISBN:9780812200652
DOI:10.9783/9780812200652

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