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ical, economic, social, and cultural forces behind “white trash” were published. Nancy Isenberg’s lengthy monograph White Trash: The Year Untold History of Class in America played a particularly significant role in shaping public conversations on this topic. The opening lines of White Trash. In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. White Trash: The Year Untold History of Class in America is a work of non-fiction by historian and scholar Nancy Isenberg about the hidden history of class and poverty in America. Isenberg admits that this story is not necessarily “untold,” but rather exists outside the typical American ideologies of what it means to be white in the U.S.
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