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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matt Wray; Annalee Newitz |
ISBN: | 0415916917 9780415916912 0415916925 9780415916929 |
OCLC Number: | 35025850 |
Description: | 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Defining and defying stereotypes: Sunset Trailer Park / Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé. Name calling : objectifying "poor whites" and "white trash" in Detroit / John Hartigan, Jr. Partners in crime : African Americans and non-slaveholding whites in antebellum Georgia / Timothy J. Lockley. Bloody footprints : reflections on growing up poor white / Roxanne A. Dunbar -- pt. 2. White trash pictures: Crackers and whackers : the white trashing of porn / Constance Penley. White trash girl : the interview / Laura Kipnis with Jennifer Reeder. White savagery and humiliation, or a new racial consciousness in the media / Annalee Newitz. Can whiteness speak? institutional anomies, ontological disasters, and three Hollywood films / Mike Hill -- pt. 3. Producing and consuming poor whites: Trash-o-nomics / Doug Henwood. White trash religion / Matt Wray. Telling stories of "queer white trash" : race, class, and sexuality in the work of Dorothy Allison / Jillian Sandell. Acting naturally : cultural distinction and critiques of pure country / Barbara Ching. The king of white trash culture : Elvis Presley and the aesthetics of excess / Gael Sweeney. |
Responsibility: | edited by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz. |
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"[T]he essays in Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz's WhiteTrash: Race and Class in America forcefully peel away many common assumptions about the relations between race and privilege. The essays in White Trash interweave the personal and the "objective" to demonstrate the interdependence of experience and knowledge necessary to understand as false what has to date been assumed as normative in our cultural identity: that "white" is both classless and privileged. White Trash offers a slash-and-burn approach that others will appreciate, targeting the intersection of race and class in white culture as the invisible site of contradiction that allows whiteness to be understood as raceless and classless." -- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture andSociety"White Trash...contribute(s) some important new voices to the current culture wars." -- Boston Review of Books ..a new collection of stunningly didactic essays in cultural criticism...Welcome to the newest fad in academia: white studies. Read more...


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