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. White Trash Review: Nancy Isenbergs New Book Is Bad. Johnson's Great Society they are now offered up as entertainment in reality TV shows, and the label is applied to celebrities ranging from Dolly Parton to Bill Clinton. White Trash Book Amazon Summary of White Trash on Apple Books. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and Lyndon B. Reconstruction pitted 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. 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. Harry Williams Professor of American History. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. Summary: In this book, Nancy Isenberg reveals that the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies. Find this book: As Nancy Isenberg describes in her new book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, one question that polite American society has always asked itself is whether poor whites can really be considered white (or even truly human). About the author (2016) Nancy Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction.
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