Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable — Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable — Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable — Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable — Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable — Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.

— Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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