具體描述
In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends histroy as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.
“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters boosting Trump have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg.
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.
Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.
We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
作者簡介
Nancy Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is the winner of the 2016 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia.
目錄資訊
讀後感
A chronical retell of the history of america from the perspective of the class struggle. The author put most emphasis on white underclass, so called "white trash", while white elites, black underclass are also touched upon. Events, public figures, and cultu...
評分A chronical retell of the history of america from the perspective of the class struggle. The author put most emphasis on white underclass, so called "white trash", while white elites, black underclass are also touched upon. Events, public figures, and cultu...
評分A chronical retell of the history of america from the perspective of the class struggle. The author put most emphasis on white underclass, so called "white trash", while white elites, black underclass are also touched upon. Events, public figures, and cultu...
評分A chronical retell of the history of america from the perspective of the class struggle. The author put most emphasis on white underclass, so called "white trash", while white elites, black underclass are also touched upon. Events, public figures, and cultu...
評分A chronical retell of the history of america from the perspective of the class struggle. The author put most emphasis on white underclass, so called "white trash", while white elites, black underclass are also touched upon. Events, public figures, and cultu...
用戶評價
這本書的文字密度和情感張力，簡直讓人喘不過氣。它不像傳統的紀實文學那樣追求客觀和平衡，反而帶著一種近乎原始的、未經打磨的情感衝擊力。閱讀過程中，我感覺自己像是在一場持續的、低沉的轟鳴聲中穿行，那些破碎的傢庭關係、難以言喻的羞恥感，以及那些在絕望中偶爾閃現的、微弱卻堅韌的生命力，都被作者用一種近乎詩意的、卻又冷硬的筆觸捕捉瞭下來。我尤其欣賞作者在處理復雜人性時的那種不迴避、不粉飾的態度。書中的角色並非臉譜化的受害者或惡人，他們是活生生的、充滿矛盾的個體。你會看到他們做齣瞭令人發指的舉動，但緊接著，作者又會揭示導緻這些舉動的深層原因，那種心理上的拉扯和糾纏，讓讀者在譴責的同時，又感到一種深刻的同情與理解。這本書的結構設計也十分巧妙，它不是綫性的時間敘事，而是像一幅拼貼畫，將不同時間點、不同人物的故事碎片巧妙地嵌入其中，最終拼湊齣一個令人心碎卻又無比真實的社會圖景。它帶來的閱讀體驗是沉浸式的、消耗性的，但絕對是值得的，因為它極大地拓寬瞭我們對“人”的理解邊界。
评分這本書的書名真是直白得讓人心頭一緊，讀完之後，我發現它遠不止一個挑釁性的標簽那麼簡單。作者似乎擁有某種近乎殘酷的洞察力，將鏡頭聚焦於那些被社會主流敘事排斥在外的人生切片。我尤其被其中關於“機遇不均等”的描繪所震撼。書中描繪的那些小鎮生活，那種代際傳遞的貧睏和宿命感，不是那種廉價的煽情，而是如同冰冷的解剖刀，精準地切開瞭係統性的睏境。你讀到那些為瞭微薄的尊嚴而掙紮的個體，他們或許做齣瞭旁人看來愚蠢的選擇，但在當時的語境下，那似乎是唯一的齣路。它探討瞭環境如何塑造一個人的道德羅盤和人生軌跡，讓我不得不反思，我們對“成功”和“失敗”的定義，是否過於簡化和傲慢。這本書的敘事節奏把握得極妙，它不是那種平鋪直敘的報告文學，而是穿插著極富畫麵感的場景描寫和人物內心獨白，讓讀者仿佛身臨其境地體驗著那種被生活反復擠壓的窒息感。我閤上書頁時，心中久久不能平靜，它迫使我審視自己所處的舒適區，並對那些我們輕易做齣的價值判斷，産生瞭深刻的懷疑。它成功地將一個看似邊緣的主題，提升到瞭關於社會結構和人性韌性的哲學討論層麵。
评分這本書的敘事風格簡直像一場高速行駛的列車，充滿瞭不可預測的顛簸和突然的加速。它有一種令人上癮的、近乎野蠻的生命力，那種從底層掙紮齣來的呐喊，透過紙麵都能清晰地傳達齣來。我最欣賞的是，作者並沒有采用高高在上的俯視視角來評判這些人物的生活，而是以一種平視甚至略微傾斜的角度，與他們並肩站立，共同麵對那些令人絕望的睏境。書中對於物質匱乏的描寫，達到瞭令人咋舌的細緻程度，你仿佛能聞到那些舊屋子裏的黴味，能感受到那些因營養不良帶來的持續疲憊。這種對感官細節的極緻捕捉，使得這本書超越瞭一般的社會評論，更像是一部紮根於土地的、疼痛的史詩。它探討瞭在資源極度受限的環境下，個人意誌力能支撐多久，以及“希望”這個詞，在現實的重壓下會如何被重新定義。與其說這是一本讀物，不如說它是一次強烈的、情感上的“在場體驗”，它迫使你直麵人性的脆弱與堅韌，其衝擊力持續時間之長，是我近期閱讀中少有的。
评分初翻開這本作品時，我帶著一種審慎的好奇心，畢竟書名本身就帶有強烈的標簽化傾嚮。然而，閱讀體驗很快就證明瞭我的初始判斷是片麵的。這本書的真正力量，在於它如何不動聲色地拆解那些約定俗成的社會階層壁壘。作者似乎擁有一種罕見的同理心，能夠深入到那些日常生活中被忽略的角落，捕捉那些細微的、隻有身處其中的人纔懂的生存法則和交流密碼。我特彆留意到書中對於地域文化和方言俚語的運用，這些細節的處理，為整個故事增添瞭無可替代的真實感和厚重感，讓那些遠在韆裏之外的讀者，也能真切地感受到那種特定環境下的氛圍。這本書不是在簡單地控訴，它更多的是在進行一種深層次的社會學觀察，探討的是文化資本和經濟資本如何在代際間形成難以逾越的鴻溝。它讓我開始重新審視“嚮上流動”這個概念，在某些環境下，它或許更像是一種神話，而非普遍的現實。讀完後，我開始在日常生活中，對那些看似尋常的互動多瞭一層思考：我們究竟是在與人交流，還是在與人固有的社會身份交流？這本書無疑是強有力的思想催化劑。
评分這部作品的文學性在於其對“疏離感”的精妙處理。它描繪瞭一個群體，但重點卻在於這個群體與主流社會之間那道看不見的、卻又堅不可摧的隔閡。作者的語言風格非常剋製，卻又在關鍵時刻爆發齣驚人的力量，像是在平靜的湖麵下隱藏著洶湧的暗流。我發現書中有很多關於“身份認同”的探討，這些人物對於自己是誰，以及他們被社會如何定義，有著非常復雜且痛苦的認知。他們既想掙脫現有的標簽，又在某種程度上被這些標簽所塑造和定義。這本書成功地避開瞭將“貧窮”浪漫化或妖魔化的陷阱，它隻是冷靜地展示瞭生存的邏輯，那種邏輯往往與我們城市中推崇的價值體係大相徑庭。我特彆喜歡其中穿插的那些關於傢庭秘史的零星片段，這些碎片化的信息如同考古發掘一般，慢慢揭示瞭為什麼這些人的命運會如此糾纏在一起。讀完後，你不會得到一個簡單的答案或解決方案，但你會獲得一種更深層次的理解：社會結構的復雜性遠超我們的想象，而那些被忽略的角落，往往蘊藏著最真實的、最復雜的人類故事。
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评分很有意思的書，風格偏論文，所以大概沒人讀
评分一切偏見都源於對事物認知的局限。
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