Odd Tribes Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People

Name: Odd Tribes Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People
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ISBN: 9780822335979

ISBN-10: 0822335972

ISBN-13: 9780822335979

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Hartigan, John Hartigan

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"Odd Tribes" challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype "white trash" to the actual social conditions of poor whites, John Hartigan Jr. generates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected. By tracing the historical interplay of stereotypes, popular cultural representations, and the social sciences' objectifications of poverty, Hartigan demonstrates how constructions of whiteness continually depend on the vigilant maintenance of class and gender…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction






Picturing the Underclass: Myth Making in the Inner City



Blood Will Tell: The Nationalization of White Trash



Unpopular Culture: The Case of White Trash



Reading Trash: Deliverance and the Cultural Poetics of White Trash



Talking Trash: White Poverty and Marked Forms of Whiteness



Green Ghettos and the White Underclass






Establishing the Fact of Whiteness



Locating White Detroit



Object Lessons in Whiteness: Antiracism and the Study of White Folks



Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race


Notes


Reference


Index