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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By 1850s the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers", known for prematurely aged children recognized by their yellowish pores and skin, ragged clothing, and listless intellects. In White Garbage, Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free population. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Get together in the first 19th hundred years, and the Civil Battle itself was fought over course issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against recently freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Contemporary society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. We acknowledge racial injustice as an unattractive stain on our nation's history. With Isenberg's landmark reserve, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent character of course as well.
