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Poverty and the Boundaries of Whiteness

Poverty and the Boundaries of Whiteness Poverty and the Boundaries of Whiteness by Barbara Ladd Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People. By John Hartigan, Jr. Durham: Duke UP, 2005. 359 pp. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By Matt Wray. Durham: Duke UP, 2006. xiii + 213 pp. $79.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. John Hartigan, Jr. and Matt Wray are among the growing list of contributors to the field of whiteness studies, which traces its beginnings to the early 1990s and the work of Alexander Saxton, David Roediger, Toni Morrison, Vron Ware, Ruth Frankenberg, Eric Lott, and Noel Ignatiev. The healthy variety of disciplinary methodologies whiteness studies can claim (history, literary studies, ethnography, sociology, political science) makes it a rich field of study. For both Hartigan and Wray it is also a field with a few thorny issues to face in what Wray calls its "adolescence." Among them are the vagueness of the term whiteness; the tension between race and class, too often assumed to be analytical alternatives, resulting in an inability to negotiate connections and interdependencies; the reification of categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality in identity studies; and, for Hartigan, "the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Poverty and the Boundaries of Whiteness

Ladd, Barbara.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 41 (1) – Feb 12, 2009
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Poverty and the Boundaries of Whiteness by Barbara Ladd Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People. By John Hartigan, Jr. Durham: Duke UP, 2005. 359 pp. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By Matt Wray. Durham: Duke UP, 2006. xiii + 213 pp. $79.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. John Hartigan, Jr. and Matt Wray are among the growing list of contributors to the field of whiteness studies, which traces its beginnings to the early 1990s and the work of Alexander Saxton, David Roediger, Toni Morrison, Vron Ware, Ruth Frankenberg, Eric Lott, and Noel Ignatiev. The healthy variety of disciplinary methodologies whiteness studies can claim (history, literary studies, ethnography, sociology, political science) makes it a rich field of study. For both Hartigan and Wray it is also a field with a few thorny issues to face in what Wray calls its "adolescence." Among them are the vagueness of the term whiteness; the tension between race and class, too often assumed to be analytical alternatives, resulting in an inability to negotiate connections and interdependencies; the reification of categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality in identity studies; and, for Hartigan, "the

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