White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Isenberg, Nancy and

from Gingermama

An in-depth look at class in America from the early days at Jamestown through today. Insightful and entertaining, this book examines the history of and attitudes toward lower-class whites in the U.S. and considers whether upward mobility (via hard work and determination) is really as achievable a...

from msf59

Waste people, clay-eaters, squatters, crackers, trailer-trash, rednecks and hillbillies. Different names, different times, same conclusion: The poor. The white trash. The author looks at the American class system, over the past few centuries. A system the pilgrims fled from but immediately adopte...

from Kellswitch

This is a challenging book to review, I learned so much reading it and it roused so many feelings in me and I found what it says about humans in general and America in particular depressing as hell. I did not finish this book feeling positive about our species and our future, and I suspect that h...

from

Excellent, detailed history of class in the South, but imbalanced due to lesser focus on the North. She doesn't mention the union movement or white immigrants of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Eye-opening insight into the attitudes of the upper and middle classes towards the lower classes, b...

from deusvitae

Another book of which the subtitle is more accurate than the title. This book is not really about "white trash"; it's about "the 400 year untold history of class in America." If one is looking for or waiting for a book really getting into the story of "white trash," and the experience of poor whi...