Full name: The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

Author: Jim Goad Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Politics, History, Philosophy, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684838649 0684838648

Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history. Similar books: A Colony in a Nation by Christopher Hayes Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks Weird Like Us by Ann Powers Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl Losing the Race by John McWhorter The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Migrations And Cultures by Thomas Sowell White Trash by Nancy Isenberg Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant The Vanishing American Adult by Benjamin E. Sasse Race And Culture by Thomas Sowell The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin Arrival City by Doug Saunders In the President's Secret Service by Ronald Kessler On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin Upside Down by Eduardo Galeano Reappraisals by Tony Judt