The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats

Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.

Author: Jim Goad
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 05/05/1998
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.47w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9780684838649
ISBN10: 0684838648
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | European American Studies
- Social Science | Sociology | General

About the Author
Jim Goad himself a proud member of The White Trash Nation, was the creator and chief writer for ANSWER Me!, a controversial zine that he used to publish in Los Angeles. He does not presently live in a trailer park but is thinking about it. The Redneck Manifesto is his first book