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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: From the start, class divisions have molded American society’s structure deeply.
Chapter 3: The founding fathers’ egalitarian visions were anchored in fundamentally classist thinking overall.
Chapter 4: Poor whites spearheading westward expansion embodied both the finest and ugliest sides of American culture alike.
Chapter 5: The Civil War featured a battle between conflicting stories about poor whites.
Chapter 6: Following the Civil War, bias against the poor resurfaced under eugenics’ pseudoscientific guise nationwide.
Chapter 7: After the Great Depression, social reforms and research disputed narratives declaring poor whites genetically inferior once widely accepted nationwide.
Chapter 8: White trash culture became a core element of mainstream American pop culture.
Description
White Trash (2016) retells American history from the perspective of the poor whites who were by turns despised and admired by the upper classes. These blinks trace the biopolitical, cultural and social ideas that have shaped the lives of white trash Americans from early colonial days to the Civil War, through the Great Depression and up to the present day.
Who Should Listen
- Readers fascinated by American sociology and the history of class
- Students of American politics and culture
- Those curious about alternative historical narratives for the United States