The Redneck Manifesto

副标题: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

ISBN: 9780684838649

出版社: Simon & Schuster

出版年: 1998-5-5

页数: 272

定价: USD 14.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.