![]() ![]() But that came with an admonishment about what this meant for indigenous tribes. I vaguely recall singing a song about Christopher Columbus discovering America in kindergarten. It delights in demolishing the fairy tale version of history that says the Pilgrims left Europe to escape religious persecution, the Founding Fathers were farsighted and principled, the United States is a land of opportunity for all, yada yada yada.īut hasn’t this version of history already been demolished? I’m not sure I ever actually heard the fairy tales I think I inferred them from debunkings. Instead, it’s about the questions the book prompted me to ask. ![]() Who got sent to settle North America? How has the white ruling class perceived the white underclass? What explains the popularity of TV shows like The Beverly Hillbillies and Duck Dynasty? These are some of the questions the book attempts to answer. Isenberg makes this case with a historical narrative that goes from the colonization of America to the present. ![]() This was true in the past, and it's true today. Elites interfere with their lives, think of them as a problems to be solved, and blatantly mock them. The poor, even whites, are systematically mistreated. Here is a Tweet-length overview of Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016): ![]()
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