Title: Not Quite White
Description: White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, Not Quite White documents the origins and transformations of the multiple meanings projected onto poor rural whites in the United States. Wray draws on a wide variety of primary sources--literary texts, folklore, diaries and journals, medical and scientific articles, social scientific analyses--to construct a dense archive of changing collective representations of poor whites. -- From publisher description.
Subjects: Difference (Psychology), Race relations, Race identity, Whites, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Social classes, Social stratification, Rural poor, Public opinion, Social conditions, Social classes, united states, Public opinion, united states, United states, social conditions, United states, race relations, White people, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer