![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1600s, Britain produced colonies of people they saw as drones. The shift in names depended less on nuances than on the temporal, spatial, and geographical realities of this economic group. Rather than a conventional survey of workers’ often thwarted struggles for middle class lives, however, she explores the permanent subalterns historically accused of dirtying America.ĭirt-poor white, in fact, was a tame insult compared to the epithets thrown at unfortunates from the era of British domination to our times. Harry Williams Professor of American History at Louisiana State University, has produced a voluminous social history of a “historically toxic” (231) group: “white trash.” In so doing she has exposed the underside of American exceptionalism, the cherished national ideology of a classless society. New York: Viking, 2016īook Review by Laura Hapke, an independent scholar whose books include Labor’s Text: The Worker in American Fiction (2001) and Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea (2004). White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in Americaīy Nancy Isenberg. ![]()
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