![]() ![]() A book on the treatment of poor whites by the Southern elite.Isenberg’s text hints at what some of those books might be: I acknowledge that this book, riding its White Trash title, may lead to other, better books. She is shocked - just shocked! - at the reality that there are rich and poor in this nation, and that it’s hard for the poor to rise up the economic ladder as, ideally, they are supposed to be able to do. ![]() Sometimes, it includes poor whites from elsewhere in the country, such as Maine and California.Īnd, sometimes, she’s not talking about white trash at all, but about the fact that, from the beginning, there was the stratification of classes in the British colonies and then in the new United States. Given its title, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Louisiana State University history professor Nancy Isenberg would seem to be a book about a certain group, or class, in American society.īut, throughout the book, Isenberg adamantly and continually avoids defining that group.Ī lot of times, it’s poor Southern whites, but, at other times, it’s only some poor Southern whites. ![]()
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