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

ISBN: 0684838648

ISBN13: 9780684838649

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

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Book Overview

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.

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Rated 5 stars
One of the best books I have ever read.

Goad is raunchy, filthy, foul-mouthed, and brilliantly truthful in his book, "The Redneck Manifesto." I saw myself in every word. This country was built by rednecks and I have never been more proud of being one.

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Rated 5 stars
Goad hit the nail on the head

Jim Goad, in his "Redneck Manifessto" assumes a role most white-bread middle Americans would probably never cast him in. For a self-proclaimed piece of "white trash", Mr. Goad proves not only unusually insightful, but extremely articulate in a manner those same middle Americans would not expect from a "hillbilly". The actual topics of conversation are ones that have suffered from a terribly long run of having been either...

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Rated 5 stars
Superbly entertaining; makes good points as well.

This wonderful little gem is something I would assign in a second were I a teacher of American history in a liberal school like Berkeley where, contrary to the alleged situation in the rest of the country, undergraduates are forced, via a required class, to be sensitive to American diversity, which (in the class I took there) ended up containing a great many cliched leftist attacks on white males, heterosexuality, Christianity,...

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Rated 5 stars
Razor Sharp

If you decide to read this book, you are in for a major treat. This is a book unlike any other. As I read the book, I kept wondering how it ever got published. Jim Goad is one angry redneck, to be sure. His goal is to show how poor white trash has become the only acceptable scapegoat left in this country. Along the way, he rides roughshod over every type of politically correct supposition known to man. Goad doesn't care a...

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Rated 5 stars
A book that puts an awful lot in perspective....

I've got an awful lot of education in me, and this might be the most important book that I've read left off of every syllabus ever....In haute culture and academia, the only acceptible slurs allowed are against those poor and white. Whereas a person raised impoverished in Harlem (where I live...) or South Central L.A. might be given compassion, a person raised in Boone County, West Virginia or Paducah, Kentucky would...

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