White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
- ISBN-10
- 1786493004
- ISBN-13
- 9781786493002
- Series
- White Trash
- Category
- Poor whites
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11
- Author
- Nancy Isenberg
Description
In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of the American fabric, and reveals how the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies. Surveying 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 - and forces a nation to face the truth about enduring malevolent nature of class.
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