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Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
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The Journal of Southern History
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August 1, 2008
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Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By Matt Wray. (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 213. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3873-4; cloth, $74.95, ISBN 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 mat speaks to recent debates about the utility of whiteness as an analytical category. Matt Wray argues that the phenomenon of "poor white trash," a concept evoking both racial superiority and caste-like inferiority, requires scholars to think of whiteness as more than simply the racial domination of nonwhite others. ...
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