Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction White Trash as Social Difference: Groups, Boundaries, and Inequalities 1
5. 1 Lubbers, Crackers, and PoorWhite Trash: Borders and Boundaries in the Colonies and the Early Republic 21
6. 2 Imagining PoorWhites in the Antebellum South: Abolitionist and Pro-Slavery Fictions 47
7. 3 ‘‘Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough’’: American Eugenics and PoorWhite Trash 65
8. 4 ‘‘The Disease of Laziness’’: Crackers, PoorWhites, and Hookworm Crusaders in the New South 96
9. 5 Limning the Boundaries of Whiteness 133
10. Notes 145
11. References 181
12. Index 211