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Poor White
Poor White is a sociocultural classification used to describe economically disadvantaged Whites in the English-speaking world, especially White Americans with low incomes. In the United States, Poor White (or Poor Whites of the South for clarity) is the historical classification for an American sociocultural group,Flynt, J. Wayne. ''Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites.'' Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004. Print. of generally Western and/or Northern European descent, with many being in the Southern United States and Appalachia. They first were classified as a social casteDollard, John. ''Caste and Class in a Southern Town''. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. Print. in the Antebellum South, consisting of white, agrarian, economically disadvantaged laborers or squatters, who usually owned neither land nor slaves.Weber, Max. "Ethnic Groups." '' Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology''. Berkeley: University of California, 1968. 391. Print. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor White (novel)
''Poor White'' is an American novel by Sherwood Anderson, published in 1920. An episode in the novel inspired Bertold Brecht's poem "Kohlen für Mike" ("Coal for Mike"), published in his 1939 collected '' Svendborger Gedichte''.Michael Morley, 'The Source of Brecht’s “Abbau des Schiffes Oskawa durch die Mannschaft”', ''Oxford German Studies'', 2.1 (1967), 149–62 (p. 150), . Plot introduction It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the banks of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism Industrialisation ( alternatively spelled industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organisation of an econ ... on the rural heartland of America. References External links Project Gutenberg edition of Poor White* 1920 American novels Social class in the United States Novels by Sherwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
