Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People

by John Hartigan and John Hartigan Jr.

Book Overview

Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype "white trash" to the actual social conditions of poor whites, John Hartigan Jr. generates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected. By tracing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335972
• ISBN13: 9780822335979
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"