Cultural studies' misfit: white trash studies.

The Mississippi Quarterly;  June 22, 2004 ;   Smith, Dina;   787 words ......poverty and what it means to be white trash. Bone lives in relatively stark...as Emma Slattery, part of the white trash spectacle. Allison's novel reminds...the growing specularization of white trash in today's popular culture, which...

white trash

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;    Tad Tuleja;   8 words ...00-00-0000 white trash white trash See POOR WHITE TRASH.

The Selling Of 'Trailer Park Chic'; One Person's Trash Is Another's...

The Washington Post;  March 18, 2006 ;   Ylan Q. Mui;   787 words ......Barn. Offensive or not, it's called white trash. "If you're not that ideal person, then you're white trash," says Lamar, a mother of two from the...Kansas City who runs online retailer White Trash Palace. The book "White Trash Etiquette...

The '90 version of war on the poor

University Wire;  October 1, 1998 ;   Tony Smith;   738 words ......Pennsylvanian) (U-WIRE) PHILADELPHIA, Penn. -- White Trash. We all know the term. We've seen these...on daytime talk shows. We've turned white trash into a theme for a frat party. The term...love to hate. But why are they called "white" trash? Apparently, we wish to make it ...

White-trash chic reeks of success

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 26, 2006 ;   YLAN Q. MUI, THE WASHINGTON POST;   787 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-26-2006 White-trash chic reeks of success By YLAN Q. MUI...called — offensive or not — white trash. "If you're not that ideal person, then you're white trash," says Lamar, who runs online retailer...

COLUMN: Networks feed nation's appetite for white trash

University Wire;  March 10, 2000 ;   Andrew Wohlwend;   787 words ......ANGELES -- Webster's Dictionary defines "white trash" as the following: a member of the class...upper-class Americans, the disgraceful term "white trash" conjures up images of trailer parks...these popular beliefs, the origins of white trash culture date back much further than...

KEITH WEARS LABEL WITH PRIDE.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  September 9, 2006 ;     577 words ...Life's tough when you're white trash with money. Despite the wealth...she said, 'They're nothing but white trash with money, anyway.' My wife is...ve ever been. If you think I'm white trash with money, well, I'm proud of...

"You nothing but trash": white trash shame in Dorothy Allison's Bastard...

The Southern Literary Journal;  September 22, 2001 ;   Bouson, J. Brooks;   787 words ......and, in particular, to hate poor white trash, observe Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz in their analysis of the white trash phenomenon in America (1). A classist...a dysgenic race unto themselves white trash is the most visible and clearly...

Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2008 ;   Brattain, Michelle;   787 words ...Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By...9780-8223-3882-3.) Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness is an interdisciplinary examination of "white trash" as a historical and cultural construct...

Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness.(Book review)

Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2008 ;   Brattain, Michelle;   787 words ...Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By...9780-8223-3882-3.) Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness is an interdisciplinary examination of white trash as a historical and cultural construct...

White Trash Cooking, Twenty Years Later

Southern Quarterly;  January 1, 2007 ;   Edge, John T;   787 words ......a North Carolina literary press, for White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Mickler. Camera-rea...and bucket dumplings," and proclaimed White Trash Cooking "perhaps the most intriguing...editor of Metropolitan Home, called White Trash Cooking "the best American cookbook...

`White trash' grinds onto the dance floor

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 6, 2001 ;   KATHLEEN PARKER;   598 words ...Kathleen Parker `White trash' grinds onto the dance floor By KATHLEEN PARKER Orlando Sentinel Wednesday, June 6, 2001 Can anybody say "white trash"? Oh, let's. For "white trash" is the simple answer to so many questions these days...

BUNNY GIRL; WHITE TRASH CHARMS TEAMS WITH PLAYBOY FOR A NEW LICENSED...

WWD;  January 30, 2007 ;   Daswani, Kavita;   271 words ......Kavita Daswani LOS ANGELES JEWELRY BRAND WHITE Trash Charms, which is regularly worn by high-profi...baubles that will bow at WWDMAGIC. The White Trash Charms for Playboy collection is the work of White Trash owner and designer Brooke Dulien, and...

FILM REVIEW: 'Poor White Trash 2' the worst film ever made

University Wire;  November 29, 2001 ;   Jeff Dickerson;   444 words ......oblivious to the existence of "Poor White Trash 2," the true recipient of the crown...the ill-informed. The original "Poor White Trash," alternately referred to as "Bayou...abnormal subject matter depicted in 'Poor White Trash,' no-one under 17 will be admitted...

poor white trash

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;    Tad Tuleja;   54 words ...00-00-0000 poor white trash poor white trash Slovenly or shiftless white people, especially in the South...were willing to work like slaves. Heard since the 1850s as white trash, and sometimes in this century simply as trash.