Title: Hillbilly
Description: "In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "while trash"--Has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds."--Jacket.
Subjects: Civilization, Group identity, Mountain people, Mountain people in popular culture, Popular culture, Public opinion, Race identity, Race relations, Whites, Whites in popular culture, Appalachians (people), White people in popular culture, White people
Places: United States