Summary Of White Trash By Nancy G. Isenberg

Nancy G. Isenberg is an American historian, and the T. Harry Williams Professor of history at Louisiana State University. She graduated from Rutgers University, and University of Wisconsin. One of her other most famous works is Fallen Founder: The Life of Aron Burr which won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in nonfiction.
White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America The reason for Isenberg to write this book is too show the truth behind the myths about equality in what we call the United States the land of opportunity. She is uncovering the critical legacy of today’s poor white trash. Isenberg looks at hundred years’ worth of political rhetoric and policy, political literature, and scientific theories to show her assumptions
However, America has for years been showing a different type of what they call equality. For many years class has been around starting with colonial settlers were either enterprising business man or that they were devout Christians fleeing from religious prosecution. Turns out that the majority were economically out casted or they were social burdens that the English were happy to get rid of them. The ones who became indentured servants were the criminals, beggars, and orphans who had no land-owning rights. This shows that people like politicians, landowners, or wealthy families have always occupied a higher stat than a servant who owed no land or no power. People have this thing where even though we have had good gains such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the New Deal, and other governmental programs to help the poor the middle class and upper class are still disapproving of the poor class seeing it from a civic perspective. The humiliation of what it means to be “white trash’ in America remains
Such as, Beacons Rebellion that happened in 1676 there was an uprising of dissatisfied servants and slaves in Virginia which made leaders of colonies realize that their own power could be in jeopardy. If the blacks and whites under class could gain strength and unite against them formerly they would be powerless. In exchange, so that this would not happen landowners gave poor whites greater benefits then slaves to give them a sense of superiority over blacks. This would then prevent harmony with them based on class. People like John Adams though it was human nature to seek distinction from others, and this is what has lead the poor whites to think they are superior than other groups, and create white racial