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Book SynopsisGenerates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected
Trade Review“Beautifully written, theoretically sophisticated, and passionately iconoclastic,
Odd Tribes should be required reading for anyone interested in the study of race and social inequalities. Its difficult lessons—for both liberal academics and antiracist practitioners—need to be absorbed and understood.”—Matt Wray, coeditor of
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness“For John Hartigan Jr., race is not a fixed, abstract social fact but a fluid, heterogeneous, situated field of racializing practices.
Odd Tribes deftly develops this approach through a series of lively accounts of how lower-class whites have been racialized in ways that simultaneously normalize whiteness. An elegant, fresh, provocative, often surprising, and ultimately hopeful work that argues forcefully for a cultural perspective on racial matters.”—Susan Harding, author of
The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics"[A]n important and critical engagement with what is sometimes called 'whiteness studies.' . . . Using his research in Detroit, Hartigan convincingly traces the varied and varying way in which race is lived in a context that is highly racialized, and yet not all social encounters are necessarily about race." -- Bridget Byrne * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I
1. Picturing the Underclass: Myth Making in the Inner City 33
2. Blood Will Tell: The Nationalization of White Trash 59
3. Unpopular Culture: The Case of White Trash 109
4. Reading Trash:
Deliverance and the Cultural Poetics of White Trash 135
5. Talking Trash: White Poverty and Marked Forms of Whiteness 147
6. Green Ghettos and the White Underclass 167
Part II
7. Establishing the Fact of Whiteness 187
8. Locating White Detroit 205
9. Object Lessons in Whiteness: Antiracism and the Study of White Folks 231
10. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race 257
Notes 289
Reference 327
Index 355
