Nancy isenberg books5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() America (and Britain before it) has always seen some impoverished people as hopeless (“incapable of becoming part of the mainstream society”), and thus as human waste.Rather, it is a book that wants the reader to understand how marginalizing and stereotyping this group has been a part of American history since the founding. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy or Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers in the Their Own Land, wants the reader to understand poor white people, or that chides the Democratic party for alienating them. Nancy Isenberg sets out to trace the idea of “white trash” in America from the 17 th to the 21 st century, chronicling how American culture and politics have been colored by the persistent categorization of some people into a particular recognizable category-the category variously labeled “white trash,” “trailer trash,” “rednecks,” “hillbillies,” “crackers” and “mudsills.” This is not a book that, like J.D. ![]()
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