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White trash is a derogatory term in American English for poor white people, especially in the rural areas of the southern United States. The label signifies a social class inside the white population and especially a degraded standard of living.
Jul 30, 2018 · Our Word Watch series explores the term "white trash." Some people embrace it. But experts say it demeans both the people it's applied to and people of color.
Aug 1, 2018 · Yet "white trash" could be called the Swiss army knife of insults. It's deft in its ability to demean multiple groups at once: white people and people of color, poor people and people...
White Trash is a funk/hard rock/soul band from Queens, New York, billed as "Four college dropouts with an attitude ... and a horn section". They separate themselves from other bands in their genre with their horn section, called the Badass Brass, which gives them a very funky musical sound.
Aug 16, 2016 · In “White Trash,” Nancy Isenberg delves into the history of class in America, starting with British colonization. At that time, America was seen as a wasteland -- a place to discard the idle poor.
Apr 4, 2017 · In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.
Jun 15, 2016 · White Trash offers a deep-diving history of people like Bryan going all the way back to the first European incursions into the Americas. From the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the ...
Jul 7, 2016 · Is America really a classless society? Nancy Isenberg's new book, White Trash, argues that the notion of a classless society is a myth that hides an ugly truth about how we view the poor.
Aug 5, 2016 · The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.
Jul 18, 2016 · In “White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America” (Viking), the historian Nancy Isenberg describes Bryan in this photograph as “the face of white trash,” a ready-made contrast...
