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White Trash

the 400-year Untold History of Class in America
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Jun 26, 2017Janice21383 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Clearly this is a book that attracts an...interesting diversity of opinion. Even the professional critics are confused (see reviews above. My favourite is the one that complains that in a book about white people, in a chapter about white sharecroppers, there is little mention of black sharecroppers. WTF, NYT?) Poor, and perhaps narrow and bigoted white people are simply to be ignored and despised -- aren't they? As others have noted, the style and quality of writing in White Trash varies, from the scholarly to the personal, and often, the maddeningly repetitive. However, the author is a pioneer, who is also writing from the heart, and it seems to be necessary to be extremely clear, since the poor of all shades are still the political football they have always been. There is a lot of room for future authors to research this very broad and deep field.