White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016)
Part I: To Begin the World Anew
Chapter One: Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World
Chapter Two: John Locke’s Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia
Chapter Three: Benjamin Franklin’s American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity
Chapter Four: Thomas Jefferson’s Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class
Chapter Five: Andrew Jackson’s Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man
Part II: Degeneration of the American Breed
Chapter Six: Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds, and Clay-Eaters
Chapter Seven: Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare
Chapter Eight: Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics
Chapter Nine: Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression
Chapter Ten: The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ’s Great Society
Part III: The White Trash Makeover
Chapter Eleven: Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye
Chapter Twelve: Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
EPILOGUE. America’s Strange Breed: The Long Legacy of White Trash