White Trash
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class in america
Peter
Dec 13, 2016 06:39AM
I found this to be an extraordinarily helpful documentation of class issues. As new classes have developed (e.g., the > 1% super-rich class, the creative class, the entrepreneurial class, the professional class), their interactions with the traditional classifications become increasingly curious. What do you think?
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Just finished this book and found it very sad. I though the author really did her homework and gave us a very good history of class in America. I liked the fact that she talked about new classes developing. This is something, imho, that seems to be missing from many discussions on the economics of our country. I also felt she clearly explained the divisiveness in our country. Now I want to read a book that gives us an action plan to make things better for the "white trash."
The sad take-away from this book is that even as poor whites were exploited by the wealthy/ruling/planter class (most Antebellum southern whites not only did not own slaves, they had never even seen one), one of the ways to keep them in line was to give them an even lower class to which they could feel superior. Sadly, that was the recently freed slaves, and even more sadly, that attitude persists to some degree right up to the present day.
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