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

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

460 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing––if occ...

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reflective 52%
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