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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Carr, Duane. Question of class. Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1996 (OCoLC)605517420 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Duane Carr |
| ISBN: | 0879727217 9780879727215 0879727225 9780879727222 |
| OCLC Number: | 35292850 |
| Description: | viii, 188 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Duane Carr. |
Abstract:
"Rednecks" have long been subjects of scorn and ridicule, especially in the South because of an antebellum caste and class system, parts of which persist to this day. In A Question of Class, Carr probes the historical and sociological reasons for the descent of "rednecks" into poverty, their inability to rise above it, and their continuing subjugation to a stereotype developed by others and too often accepted by themselves. Carr also records the progress in southern fiction of this negative stereotype - from antebellum writers who saw "rednecks" as threats to the social order, to post-Civil War writers who lamented the lost potential of these people and urged sympathy and understanding, to modern writers who reverted, in some sense, to Old South attitudes, and finally, to contemporary writers who point toward a more democratic acceptance of this much maligned group.
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