White Trash
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What’s it about?
A revelatory history of class in America, exposing how the myth of a classless society has masked a brutal hierarchy that has always relegated poor whites to the status of 'waste people.'
You’ll learn
- Class has always defined American life
- The 'white trash' label as a tool of control
- Eugenics targeted poor whites
- The frontier was a dumping ground for the poor