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History.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016
“Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine
In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.
“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.
En su innovadora historia sobre el sistema de clases en Estados Unidos, Nancy Isenberg expone el crucial legado de la embarazosa, siempre presente y ocasionalmente entretenida white trash. Los votantes que pusieron a Trump en la Casa Blanca han sido una parte permanente del tejido estadounidense: los pobres, marginados y sin tierra han existido desde la epoca del primer asentamiento colonial británico hasta los actuales hillbillies. Los blancos pobres fueron fundamentales para el ascenso del Partido Republicano a principios del siglo xix y la Guerra Civil en sà misma se libró casi tanto por cuestiones de clase como por la esclavitud. Por otro lado, la escoria blanca siempre ha estado en el centro de los principales debates sobre el carácter de la identidad nacional. Examinando la retórica polÃtica, la literatura popular y las teorÃas cientÃficas a lo largo de cuatrocientos años, Isenberg cuestiona los mitos de la supuesta sociedad libre de clases estadounidense, donde la libertad y el trabajo duro garantizan la movilidad social.
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In memory of Gerda Lerner and Paul Boyer
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Preface One of the most memorable films of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), a classic portrait of the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in the South.
Introduction We know what class is.
In the minds of literate English men and women, as colonization began in the 1500s, North America was an uncertain world inhabited by monstrous creatures, a blank territory skirted by mountains of gold.
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But they are who we are and have been a fundamental part of our history, whether we like it or not.
History.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016
“Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine
In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.
“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.
Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Los blancos pobres fueron fundamentales para el ascenso del Partido Republicano a principios del siglo xix y la Guerra Civil en sà misma se libró casi tanto por cuestiones de clase como por la esclavitud. Por otro lado, la escoria blanca siempre ha estado en el centro de los principales debates sobre el carácter de la identidad nacional. Examinando la retórica polÃtica, la literatura popular y las teorÃas cientÃficas a lo largo de cuatrocientos años, Isenberg cuestiona los mitos de la supuesta sociedad libre de clases estadounidense, donde la libertad y el trabajo duro garantizan la movilidad social.