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White Trash - The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Paperback, Main)
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White Trash - The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Paperback, Main)
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Price R351
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The New York Times Bestseller A ground-breaking history of the
class system in America, which challenges popular myths about
equality in the land of opportunity. In this landmark book, Nancy
Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to
the White House have been a permanent part of the American fabric,
and reveals how the wretched and landless poor have existed from
the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's
hillbillies. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican
Party in the early nineteenth century and the Civil War itself was
fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over
slavery. Reconstruction pitted white trash against newly freed
slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics - a widely popular
movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites
for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms
and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society; they are now offered up as
entertainment in reality TV shows, and the label is applied to
celebrities ranging from Dolly Parton to Bill Clinton. Marginalized
as a class, white trash have always been at or near the centre of
major political debates over the character of the American
identity. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular
literature and scientific theories over four hundred years,
Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free
society - where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real
social mobility - and forces a nation to face the truth about the
enduring, malevolent nature of class.
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