White Trash: Race and Class in America

by Annalee Newitz (Editor), Matt Wray (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415916929
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/20/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Matt Wray, Annalee Newitz

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I: DEFINING AND DEFYING STEREOTYPES, PART II: WHITE TRASH PICTURES, PART III: PRODUCING AND CONSUMING POOR WHITES, CONTRIBUTORS, INDEX

Editorial Reviews

"[T]he essays in Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz's White Trash: 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 and Society
"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.

From the Publisher

...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

Journal of Women in Culture and Society