Introduction: mediated buffoons as political stakeholders : welcome to the white working-class -- Becoming "white trash": the formation and historical mediated representations of the white working-class -- Digging in the "trash": contemporary mediated representations of white working-class people -- From insider to insider/outsider: an autoethnographic account of returning to my working-class roots -- "It's like watching a car accident": when the lived and mediated experiences of white working-class people intersect -- Conclusion: taking out the "trash": a new beginning for the white working-class
The New York Times bestseller: a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.