Not Quite White
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness is a 2006 non-fiction book by Matt Wray, published by Duke University Press.
It discusses American society's stigmatizing of poor white people. It includes information on how the word "white trash" was coined and how stigma of poor white people intersects with how whiteness theory is defined. The book covers the entire United States, though Lauren Elizabeth Nickas of the University of Notre Dame stated that the book "understandably" emphasizes aspects of the Southern United States.[1] According to Warwick Anderson of the University of Sydney, within the work, poor white people are used as "boundary markers" to examine how whiteness is and was defined in the United States.[2] Grace Elizabeth Hale of the University of Virginia wrote that the work mostly summarizes previous scholarship, and that unlike most works about cultural studies, the work does not provide information on imagery and text analysis nor does it have extensive information on social history.[3]
Ray B. Browne of Bowling Green State University wrote that this book, and Becoming Burgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865, examine how "human nature" can be made "condescending and unpleasant".[4]
According to Anthony Bak Buccitelli of Boston University the work places more emphasis on how white people in social classes higher than poor whites perceived poor whites in comparison to how poor whites perceived white people of higher classes, and that the author did not state how poor white people managed the perception of whiteness.[5]
Background
[edit]Anderson described the author as "the second generation of scholars of whiteness."[2] The author works in the sociology field.[3]
Content
[edit]The work is ordered by time period,[5] and ending in the 20th Century.[6]
One chapter made of new scholarship is one about the "hookworm crusade".[3]
Reception
[edit]Browne stated that the work has "aggravating but revealing" "conclusions" and that the work "covers most of the layers of human prejudice."[7]
Buccitelli wrote that the work includes "a valuable, expanded view of the dynamics of whiteness" in the time periods of its scope.[6]
References
[edit]- Anderson, Warwick (2010). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 84 (1): 139–140. doi:10.1353/bhm.0.0330. S2CID 71649777.
- Browne, Ray B. (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness by Matt Wray and Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865 by Frank Byrne". Journal of American Culture. 30 (2): 252–253. ProQuest 200575450 – via ProQuest.
- Buccitelli, Anthony Bak (2012). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Journal of American Folklore. 125 (496): 248–250. doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.125.496.0248.
- Hale, Grace Elizabeth (2007). "NOT QUITE WHITE: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". American Studies. 48 (1): 141–142. doi:10.1353/ams.0.0015. S2CID 144483835.
- Nickas, Lauren Elizabeth (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 66 (4): 387–388. JSTOR 42628043.
Notes
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Brattain, Michelle (2008). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Journal of Southern History. 74 (3): 720–721. doi:10.2307/27650244. JSTOR 27650244.
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Journal of American Ethnic History. 27 (1): 115–116. doi:10.2307/40543281. JSTOR 40543281. S2CID 254495973.
- Evans, Brad (2009). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness; The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940". American Literature. 81 (4): 859–861. doi:10.1215/00029831-2009-058.
- Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (2008). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 22 (1): 117–119. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2008.00006_2.x. JSTOR 25487802.
- Frost, Linda (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". American Historical Review. 112 (5): 1553–1554. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.5.1553.
- Hughey, Matthew W (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 83 (2): 300.
- Ladd, Barbara (2008). "Poverty and the Boundaries of Whiteness". The Southern Literary Journal. 41 (1): 131–134. doi:10.1353/slj.0.0023. S2CID 159947451.
- LaVigne, David J (2008). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Journal of Social History. 41 (3): 796–798. doi:10.1353/jsh.2008.0040. S2CID 142609659.
- McKinney, Karyn D (2009). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Social Forces. 87 (4): 2187–2189. doi:10.1353/sof.0.0214. S2CID 201761271.
- Narlock, Jason (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Journal of American Studies. 41 (3): 705–706. doi:10.1017/S002187580700429X. S2CID 145786581.
- Nayak, Anoop (2008). "Review: "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness" by Matt Wray". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 31 (4): 832.
- Noll, Steven (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Journal of American History. 94 (3): 913. doi:10.2307/25095163. JSTOR 25095163.
- Perry, Pamela (2009). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness . By Matt Wray. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+213. $21.95 (paper)". The American Journal of Sociology. 114 (4): 1253–1255. doi:10.1086/599162.
- Wagner, Johanna M (2010). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness by Mark Wray (review)". The Mississippi Quarterly. 63 (3): 735–738. doi:10.1353/mss.2010.0021.
- Wellman, David (2007). "Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness". Contemporary Sociology. 36 (6): 556–557. doi:10.1177/009430610703600625. S2CID 145339267.