Not Quite White : White Trash And the Boundaries of Whiteness

Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction White Trash as Social Difference: Groups, Boundaries, and Inequalities 1(20) Lubbers, Crackers, and Poor White Trash: Borders and Boundaries in the Colonies and the Early Republic 21(26) Imagining Poor Whites in the Antebellum South: Abolitionist and Pro-Slavery Fictions 47(18) ``Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough'': American Eugenics and Poor White Trash 65(31) ``The Disease of Laziness'': Crackers, Poor Whites, and Hookworm Crusaders in the New South 96(37) Limning the Boundaries of Whiteness 133(12) Notes 145(36) References 181(30) Index 211