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White Trash
Nancy Isenberg
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Isenberg's New York Times bestseller shatters America's class-free myth, revealing 400 years of "white trash" marginalization. This provocative finalist for the LA Times Book Prize exposes how even reality TV's "Duck Dynasty" perpetuates class stereotypes while masking persistent barriers to true social mobility.

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The Myth We Can't Shake: Class in the Land of Equality

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What do Bob Ewell from *To Kill a Mockingbird* and the stars of *Duck Dynasty* have in common? Both represent America's most enduring contradiction-a nation built on equality that has always maintained a rigid class system. When Harper Lee's classic hit theaters in 1962, audiences embraced its message of racial justice while overlooking another disturbing portrayal: the Ewells as irredeemable "white trash" living behind the town dump. Fast forward to 2012, and 11.8 million Americans tuned in to watch *Duck Dynasty*, our modern fascination with the same stereotypes packaged as entertainment. This isn't coincidence-it's evidence of a class consciousness we've never acknowledged. From colonial Virginia to reality television, America has always had a bottom rung, and we've always needed someone to occupy it.

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Jefferson's Rubbish and the Natural Aristocracy

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