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Not Quite White - 9780822338826
Un libro in lingua di Matt Wray edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2006
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Of crucial importance are the ideas about poor whites that circulated through early-twentieth-century public health campaigns, such as hookworm eradication and eugenic reforms. In these crusades, impoverished whites, particularly but not exclusively in the American South, were targeted for interventions by sanitarians who viewed them as “filthy, lazy crackers” in need of racial uplift and by eugenicists who viewed them as a “feebleminded menace” to the white race, threats that needed to be confined and involuntarily sterilized.
Part historical inquiry and part sociological investigation, Not Quite White demonstrates the power of social categories and boundaries to shape social relationships and institutions, to invent groups where none exist, and to influence policies and legislation that end up harming the very people they aim to help. It illuminates not only the cultural significance and consequences of poor white stereotypes but also how dominant whites exploited and expanded these stereotypes to bolster and defend their own fragile claims to whiteness.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Not Quite White
- Sottotitolo: White Trash And the Boundaries of Whiteness
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Matt Wray
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Dicembre '06
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Whites Race identity United States Whites United States Public opinion Rural poor United States Public opinion
- Pagine: 213
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0822338823
- EAN-13: 9780822338826