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Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People.(Book review)
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Journal of Southern History
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May 1, 2007
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Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People. By John Hartigan Jr. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp [x], 359. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8223-3597-2; cloth, $84.95, ISBN 0-8223-3584-0.)
In his wide-ranging and often insightful new book, John Hartigan Jr. examines the multiple meanings and uses of whiteness in popular culture by social scientists, by cultural theorists, and by individuals. Focusing particular attention on depictions and attitudes of poor whites, especially those deemed "white trash," he challenges the prevalent notion that whiteness as a social category and identity is both largely homogenous and exclusively a marker of ...
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