Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Citazione:
Poor Whites/White Trash: una ricognizione / C. Scarpino. - In: ACOMA. - ISSN 2421-423X. - 28 (Nuova serie):24(2023 Jul 16), pp. 1.5-1.16.
Abstract:
The 400-hundred-year history of
poor whites in the U.S. South has
been marked by systemic poverty
fueled by structural economic dynamics.
Intrinsic to the class discourse
is a history of cultural and
political stigmatization of white
poor by “progressive” white
elites, reformists, and liberals.
Derided as rednecks and hillbillies
and lumped into the derogatory
category of white trash, poor
white Southerners have been
subjected to classist and eugenic
discrimination. Constructed as
“dysgenic,” incapable of social
betterment, anti-modern, and
uneducable by other whites, the
identity of poor whites is associated
with the idea of poverty as
an irremediable dysfunction – no
small curse in a country founded
on the myth of the classless society
and infinite social mobility.
This introduction touches upon
Dolly Parton, Li’l Abner, Gone with
the Wind, Dorothy Allison, Erskine
Caldwell, the photo-essay
book, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy,
and Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers
in Their Own Land.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
White Poor; White Trash
Elenco autori:
C. Scarpino
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