Title: A question of class
First published: 1996
Description: "Rednecks" have long been subjects of scorn and ridicule, especially in the South because of an antebellum caste and class system, parts of which persist to this day. In A Question of Class, Carr probes the historical and sociological reasons for the descent of "rednecks" into poverty, their inability to rise above it, and their continuing subjugation to a stereotype developed by others and too often accepted by themselves.

Carr also records the progress in southern fiction of this negative stereotype - from antebellum writers who saw "rednecks" as threats to the social order, to post-Civil War writers who lamented the lost potential of these people and urged sympathy and understanding, to modern writers who reverted, in some sense, to Old South attitudes, and finally, to contemporary writers who point toward a more democratic acceptance of this much maligned group.
Subjects: Stereotype (Psychology) in literature, Literature and society, Social classes in literature, History and criticism, Poor in literature, Working class whites in literature, Rednecks, American fiction, In literature, Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature, Southern states, in literature, American fiction--history and criticism, American fiction--southern states--history and criticism, Literature and society--southern states, Rednecks--southern states, Ps261 .c37 1996, 813.009/353, Working class white people in literature
Places: Southern States
LC classification: PS261 .C37 1996