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Video: Nancy Isenberg – White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the American identity.

December 16, 2022 · Leave a comment

Alec MacGillis: “White Trash” — America’s Forgotten Underclass

Waste people. Rubbish. Clay-eaters. Hillbillies. Recent books that reckon with the long, bleak history of the country’s white poor suggest their plight shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country … Continue reading

August 7, 2016 · 6 Comments

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