This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
p. 1
Sunset Trailer Park
p. 15
Name Calling: Objectifying "Poor Whites" and "White Trash" in Detroit
p. 41
Partners in Crime: African Americans and Non-slaveholding Whites in Antebellum Georgia
p. 57
Bloody Footprints: Reflections on Growing Up Poor White
p. 73
Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn
p. 89
White Trash Girl: The Interview
p. 113
White Savagery and Humiliation, or A New Racial Consciousness in the Media
p. 131
Can Whiteness Speak? Institutional Anomies, Ontological Disasters, and Three Hollywood Films
p. 155
Trash-o-nomics
p. 177
White Trash Religion
p. 193
Telling Stories of "Queer White Trash": Race, Class, and Sexuality in the Work of Dorothy Allison
p. 211
Acting Naturally: Cultural Distinction and Critiques of Pure Country
p. 231
The King of White Trash Culture: Elvis Presley and the Aesthetics of Excess
p. 249
Contributors
p. 267
Index
p. 270
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