The Redneck Manifesto How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats

Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. AsThe Redneck Manifestoboldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.

Jim Goad himself a proud member of The White Trash Nation, was the creator and chief writer for ANSWER Me!, a controversial "zine" that he used to publish in Los Angeles. He does not presently live in a trailer park but is thinking about it. The Redneck Manifesto is his first book.

1. White Niggers Have Feelings, Too
2. Feudal Existence: The Roots of Eurogarbage
3. A Quick History of the White American Underclass (And an Even Quicker History of the Goads)
4. The View from Outside: How Rednecks Became Aliens
5. Workin' Hard
6. Playin' Hard
7. Prayin' Hard
8. What's So Bad About Hatemongers, Gun Nuts, and Paranoid, Tax-Resisting Extremists?
9. Me and the Blacks
10. Several Compelling Arguments for the Enslavement of All White Liberals
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