“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.” -Nancy Isenberg. In the book, White Trash: The 400- Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg, she depicts the history of class in American society and traces the historical emergence of “white trash”. By centering on the creation of class she emphasizes the mere true definition of “white trash” in American society. White Trash documents, in extensive detail, how each stage, from the birth of this nation till the inauguration of President Donald Trump, in America’s development has left America’s upper-class unattainable and egotistical. In addition, White Trash underlines the very subjects we discussed in class such as hegemony, and presents a rebuttal in relation to African Americans treatment throughout history.
The novel…show more content… These ideals are still expressed today with the government funding being cut for things like abortion, insurance rates being increased, and the financial backing for things like Planned Parenthood being dropped, we take away choices and alternative options for today’s poor families. Isenberg(2016) asserts, “Abortion and birth control, meanwhile, are for evangelical conservatives a violation of God’s will that all people should be fruitful and multiply, and yet this same fear of unnatural methods of reproduction does not engender opposition to fertility clinics. Antiabortion activists, like eugenicists, think that the state has the right to intervene in the breeding habits of poor single women.” (p.318) Isenberg is stating the abuse of dominance and tyranny of the government not only on lower-class a whole but lower class women and their choices of breeding. Another variable in “sterilization” of these people was to condemn them for the way they
