Download or read book Growing Up White Trash written by Michael Thomas Kearns and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BOOK BY TWO BROTHERS WHO SHARE STORIES FROM THEIR CHILDHOOD, DETAILING WHAT IT WAS LIKE GROWING UP AS THE TWO YOUNGEST BROTHERS IN A FAMILY OF 6 BOYS (NO SISTERS) AND THE FUNNY ADVENTURES THEY GOT INVOLVED IN. THIS WAS THE 70'S & 80'S, THERE WERE NO “CELL PHONES” OR COMPUTERS! MUSIC WAS PLAYED ON RECORD PLAYERS AND LATER ON CASSETTE TAPES. MTV (MUSIC TELEVISION) FIRST AIRED ON AUGUST 1st 1981 BRINGING MUSIC VIDEOS TO T.V. CHANGING THE WAY WE LOOKED AT MUSIC FOR GOOD! PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD NEVER LOCKED THEIR DOORS AT NIGHT. KIDS WOULD GET UP IN THE MORNING, GET ON THEIR BIKES AND WOULD STAY GONE ALL DAY, ONLY RETURNING HOME IN THE EVENING TO EAT DINNER! IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME THEN! A GREAT TIME TO BE A KID! WE NEVER REALIZED JUST HOW GOOD WE HAD IT UNTIL WE TOOK TIME TO LOOK BACK ON OUR CHILDHOOD AND SEE ALL THE FUN STUFF WE GOT TO DO. HOPEFULLY THIS BOOK BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF YOUR CHILDHOOD AND THE HAPPY TIMES YOU HAD GROWING UP AS WELL! ENJOY!
Download or read book White Trash written by Rosa Pannell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia White Trash is the story of Be Be Beasley and her 11 brothers and sisters. They grew up in a place called Happy Top. It was an area filled with run down shacks, sitting on top of a gloomy hill. The Beasley children had many adventures most of which they liked to settle with their fists. The following is a collection of memories from Be Be, as she shares some of the highlights from her family’s past. These stories include one sister stealing from the mob, another shooting her husband (although he claimed self-defense), as well as what it was like growing up poor in Happy Top just to name a few. Only two of the Beasley siblings still survive but they all managed to leave behind the one place that would never define them.
Download or read book The Girl Who Was Saturday Night written by Heather O'Neill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An enchanting story of twins, fame, and heartache by the much-praised author of Lullabies for Little Criminals"--
Download or read book White Trash written by Rosa Pannell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia White Trash is the story of Be Be Beasley and her 11 brothers and sisters. They grew up in a place called Happy Top. It was an area filled with run down shacks, sitting on top of a gloomy hill. The Beasley children had many adventures most of which they liked to settle with their fists. The following is a collection of memories from Be Be, as she shares some of the highlights from her family’s past. These stories include one sister stealing from the mob, another shooting her husband (although he claimed self-defense), as well as what it was like growing up poor in Happy Top just to name a few. Only two of the Beasley siblings still survive but they all managed to leave behind the one place that would never define them.
Download or read book Talking White Trash written by Tasha R. Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking White Trash documents the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people—a task inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to understand herself through watching films and television shows. The increasing presence of white working-class people in media, particularly within the genre of reality television, and their role in fueling the unprecedented rise of Donald Trump, has made this population a central subject of U.S. cultural discourse. Rather than relying solely on analyses of mediated portrayals, Dunn makes use of personal narratives, interviews, focus groups, textual analysis, and critical autoethnography to specifically analyze how popular media articulates certain ideas about white working-class people, and how those who identify as members of this population, including herself, negotiate such articulations. Dunn’s work provides alternative stories that are rarely, if ever, found in popular media—stories that feature the varied reactions and lived experiences of white working-class people; stories that talk to, talk with, and talk back to mediated representations and dominant cultural ideas; stories that illuminate the multidimensionality of a population that is often portrayed in one-dimensional ways; stories that move inside and outside the white working-class to better understand their role within, and influence upon, U.S. culture.
Download or read book White Trash written by Nancy Isenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history 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 who boosted Trump all the way to the White House 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.
Download or read book White Trash written by Wanda Pope and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a poor white trash daughter, one of thirteen children of an abusive, alcoholic father and submissive mother, doing at a reception with the President of the United States of America in the White House? Living in a tin barn with dirt floors, no plumbing, and being able to lie in bed at night and look at the stars seemed so far away now. How did Wanda Pope get from going to bed at night and being told to go to sleep so she wouldn't know she was hungry to having a glass of wine with the president of the United States? Growing up wondering if tonight would be the night that her father wouldn't miss when he shot at her mother? Would she or one of her siblings possibly die tonight, or would they still be able to go dig in dumpsters the next day for food? How did she ever get out of so much poverty?
Download or read book White Trash in a Trailer Park written by Randal Patrick and published by Eggman Pub. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randy Patrick paints a unique Southern canvas with the story of a 16-year-old girl coming of age and dealing with teenage pregnancy, passive child abuse and affirmative action. Using language as his brush, he colors the pages with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. A rich array of gritty characters.
Download or read book White Trash written by Annalee Newitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.
Download or read book Granny Boop s Big House written by Frankie James and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-10-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tale of a boy caught up in a Redneck place and time. Chock full of love and terror, it is an intriguing mix of true family fun, American values circa 60s/70s and strange accounts of individual survival. Granny Boop's Big House is the saga of seven kids and their alcoholic mother living life in the little pink house they called home. Bear witness as the generations pass and Bobby Lee, the youngest brother harboring his special secret, revealsall. After their matriarch passes, the clan ultimately divides, dashing Mommas dream that they stay together. Hopes remain high however of an eventual reunion. Growing up Gay White Trash and Liking it is reality at its bizarre best. (508 pages)
Download or read book White Trash Warlock written by David R. Slayton and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all magicians go to schools of magic. Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. But for much of Adam’s life, that power has been a curse, hindering friendships, worrying his backwoods family, and fueling his abusive father’s rage. Years after his brother, Bobby, had him committed to a psych ward, Adam is ready to come to grips with who he is, to live his life on his terms, to find love, and maybe even use his magic to do some good. Hoping to track down his missing father, Adam follows a trail of cursed artifacts to Denver, only to discover that an ancient and horrifying spirit has taken possession of Bobby’s wife. It isn’t long before Adam becomes the spirit’s next target. To survive the confrontation, save his sister-in-law, and learn the truth about his father, Adam will have to risk bargaining with very dangerous beings ... including his first love.
Download or read book The White Trash Mom Handbook written by Michelle Lamar and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mommy manifesto for the mom who proudly strives to be less-than-perfect Michelle Lamar is a wry observer of the politics of elementary schools, the perfect moms who run them, and the kids who are trying to grow up without being embarrassed to death by their parents. This book imparts invaluable advice on how to survive the brutal world of parenting, bake sales, and the PTA. The White Trash Mom Handbook is a welcome and humorous approach to handling the pressures of modern-day motherhood. Readers can get a good laugh while learning the knowledge and skills needed to become a White Trash Mom: Fake Bakin' - transform store-bought treats into bake sale bestsellers! Making Friends - how to spot a fellow White Trash Mom from 50 paces Helping Out - give back to the school without sacrificing your time or sanity. The White Trash Mom Handbook will teach moms to let go of being the best and embrace their inner rebel so they can enjoy their kids more, avoid PTA purgatory, and get a real life.
Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Download or read book Growing Up White written by James P. Stobaugh and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob, a transplanted southerner who grew up in the Jim Crow South is now living in Pennsylvania with a northerner wife and three adopted African-American children. On receiving an invitation to his 40th high school reunion, he realizes that the committee neglected to invite the African-American half of his class. He struggles with the desire to attend his reunion, and feels guilty for feeling this way.
Download or read book Not Quite White written by Matt Wray and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, Not Quite White documents the origins and transformations of the multiple meanings projected onto poor rural whites in the United States. Wray draws on a wide variety of primary sources—literary texts, folklore, diaries and journals, medical and scientific articles, social scientific analyses—to construct a dense archive of changing collective representations of poor whites. Of crucial importance are the ideas about poor whites that circulated through early-twentieth-century public health campaigns, such as hookworm eradication and eugenic reforms. In these crusades, impoverished whites, particularly but not exclusively in the American South, were targeted for interventions by sanitarians who viewed them as “filthy, lazy crackers” in need of racial uplift and by eugenicists who viewed them as a “feebleminded menace” to the white race, threats that needed to be confined and involuntarily sterilized. Part historical inquiry and part sociological investigation, Not Quite White demonstrates the power of social categories and boundaries to shape social relationships and institutions, to invent groups where none exist, and to influence policies and legislation that end up harming the very people they aim to help. It illuminates not only the cultural significance and consequences of poor white stereotypes but also how dominant whites exploited and expanded these stereotypes to bolster and defend their own fragile claims to whiteness.
Download or read book When Did White Trash Become the New Normal written by Charlotte Hays and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattoos. Unwed pregnancy. Giving up on shaving…showering…and employment. These used to be signatures of a trashy individual. Now they’re the new norm. What happened to etiquette, hygiene, and self restraint? Charlotte Hays, Southern gentlewoman extraordinaire, takes a humorous look at the spread of white trash culture to all levels of American society.
Download or read book From White Trash to White Coat written by Dr. Tabatha Barber-Duell and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cathy Jansen is a small-town girl with big ideas. Strong-willed and stubborn, she grows up with too much independence and not enough guidance, enjoying the wilder side of life, which ends up leading her down unforeseen paths. While still in high school, Cathy gets pregnant, and although the school suggests she quit, she is determined to carry on with her education. Despite her resolve, Cathy must learn lessons the hard way. She struggles with self-esteem and identity issues as she fights to survive the ridicule and stigma of being a teenage mother. Her difficulties lead her toward her life's purpose, teaching Cathy to trust the "little voice inside" and create a new path of success, selflessness, and meaning. Cathy begins to understand the love of Jesus as she learns the rules and reasons leading her path. Despite heartbreak and frustration, she discovers ambition and appreciation, eventually finding a way to live without fear while living in love. Cathy's journey is one of trials and tribulations, but with tenacity, she unearths herself and happiness and recognizes God. "This book is authentic, important and real-just like its author. If we all had the courage to show our struggle instead of only our triumph the way she has, the world would be a far more beautiful place." -Meghan Heritage, creator and founder of the Be Event and owner of BlueWest Properties
