Odd Tribes

Informationen zum Autor John Hartigan Jr. Klappentext An ethnographic and theoretical account of the construction of whiteness through the study of the lives of white working class Americans. Zusammenfassung Generates new insights into the ways that race! class! and gender are fundamentally interconnected Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I 1. Picturing the Underclass: Myth Making in the Inner City 33 2. Blood Will Tell: The Nationalization of White Trash 59 3. Unpopular Culture: The Case of White Trash 109 4. Reading Trash: Deliverance and the Cultural Poetics of White Trash 135 5. Talking Trash: White Poverty and Marked Forms of Whiteness 147 6. Green Ghettos and the White Underclass 167 Part II 7. Establishing the Fact of Whiteness 187 8. Locating White Detroit 205 9. Object Lessons in Whiteness: Antiracism and the Study of White Folks 231 10. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race 257 Notes 289 Reference 327 Index 355

Autorentext

John Hartigan Jr. is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin.

Klappentext

An ethnographic and theoretical account of the construction of whiteness through the study of the lives of white working class Americans.

Zusammenfassung
Generates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected

Inhalt

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I

1. Picturing the Underclass: Myth Making in the Inner City 33
2. Blood Will Tell: The Nationalization of White Trash 59
3. Unpopular Culture: The Case of White Trash 109
4. Reading Trash: Deliverance and the Cultural Poetics of White Trash 135
5. Talking Trash: White Poverty and Marked Forms of Whiteness 147
6. Green Ghettos and the White Underclass 167
   Part II
7. Establishing the Fact of Whiteness 187
8. Locating White Detroit 205
9. Object Lessons in Whiteness: Antiracism and the Study of White Folks 231
10. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race 257
    Notes 289
    Reference 327
    Index 355