Not Quite White

"White trash? What did you just call me? "Not Quite White" provides the best social history of America's most quizzical moniker in the racial-class system. From its colonial origins to the era of eugenics to the public health campaign to eradicate hookworm in the South, Matt Wray's careful analysis documents the roots of this label, showing what its apparently oxymoronic nature tells us about the larger system of symbolic stratification in the United States."--Dalton Conley, author of "Honky"

Matt Wray is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.