{"product_id":"white-trash-the-400-year-untold-history-of-class-in-america-used-hardcover-nancy-isenberg","title":"White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Used Hardcover) - Nancy Isenberg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSurveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReconstruction pitted \"poor white trash\" against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere Comes Honey Boo Boo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDuck Dynasty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Marginalized as a class, \"white trash\" have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0701KB\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reach Literacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53275855978720,"sku":"Politics\/Social Commentary","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0431\/0794\/2562\/files\/27209433.jpg?v=1782936014","url":"https:\/\/reachareader.com\/products\/white-trash-the-400-year-untold-history-of-class-in-america-used-hardcover-nancy-isenberg","provider":"Reach Literacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}