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White trash the 400 year untold history5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. White TrashThe 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group History / United States / Social History Social Science /. Johnson's Great Society they are now offered up as entertainment in reality TV shows, and the label is applied to celebrities ranging from Dolly Parton to Bill Clinton. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and Lyndon B. Reconstruction pitted 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. ![]() 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. Summary: In this book, Nancy Isenberg reveals that the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies. ![]()
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