White trash
the 400-year untold history of class in America
by Nancy Isenberg · first published 2016
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A history of poor whites in America, mainly in the South.
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Recommendations: Non Fiction: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America https://smile.amazon.com/White-Trash-400-Year-History-Americ... It sometimes reads like "A People's History of the United States", but the chapter about…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗…"marginalized" groups which, regardless of their size, face systemic disadvantages peculiar to themselves. I consider the American white masses to be marginalized in ways made clear to me by Nancy Isenberg's "White Trash"[1], despite our numerical predominance (and complementary privileges). So when one seeks to falsify Feminism, it doesn't strike me as remotely relevant to discuss the overall ratio of women:men. Women's…
…remains. For a good, hard look at why I believe this, read Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything," and Peter Frase's "Four Futures." If you're daring enough, you can follow those with Nancy Isenberg's "White Trash," and Barbara Ehrenreich's "Dancing in the Streets" and "Witches, Midwives, & Nurses" for a deep look at how and how long we've been going wrong. If that all doesn't make you straight up suicidal (let…
on “Carbon Removal Technologies” ↗The book "White Trash" by Nancy Isenberg explores the class views of all the founders, she excerpts a small portion of her work here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...
on “The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800” ↗