So this is how the poor are always silenced. NANCY ISENBERG: Somehow, their complaint is threatening the power structure and the class order and the way in which they imagine the world should operate. And Nancy Isenberg, of Louisiana State University, says the term white trash is used to silence those people when they try to speak out. They've been disenfranchised, experimented on, institutionalized, even forcibly sterilized. WRAY: This is a term that really has white supremacy baked into it because it's kind of like it's understood that if you're not white, you're trash.ĭONNELLA: Wray says that poor white people have actually faced some of the same conditions as people of color throughout U.S.
So they're put into a whole different category. But those same stereotypes don't exist for white people. We have all these racist stereotypes about black and brown people that they are poor and lazy and violent. WRAY: White suggesting purity, cleanliness, even the sacred, while trash is about impurity, dirtiness and the profane.ĭONNELLA: Wray says that contradiction exists because white trash is used to describe a contradiction - white people who don't act like white people. And they are rude and crude and obnoxious.ĭONNELLA: Wray is also the author of "Not Quite White: White Trash And The Boundaries Of Whiteness." And he says the term is kind of an oxymoron. WRAY: They live in trailer parks and ramshackle cabins in the woods.
#White trash x crack
MATT WRAY: Nowadays, the connotation is that they're probably crack or meth addicts or opioid addicts.ĭONNELLA: That's Matt Wray. REBEL SON: (Singing) I'm proud to be a redneck piece of white trash.ĭONNELLA: But the words we tend to associate with white trash are actually pretty serious - poor, lazy, uneducated, violent, dirty, immoral, racist. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "REDNECK PIECE OF WHITE TRASH") UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Shut up, you stupid. (SOUNDBITE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO "REDNECK COOKING SHOW - TAMMY'S TRASHY NACHOS")ĬHELCIE LYNN: (As Trailer Trash Tammy) I like to call them Tammy's trashy nachos. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: It's the mullet and the Ted Nugent votes.
#White trash x tv
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA")ĬHARLIE DAY: (As Charlie Kelly) You don't know karate. LEAH DONNELLA, BYLINE: When you hear the phrase white trash, there are probably a bunch of images, maybe even some jokes, that come to mind.
#White trash x code
As part of our Word Watch series, Leah Donnella with NPR's Code Switch team looked into what the expression white trash really means. There are not many racial slurs that you hear on cable TV or read in the headlines these days.
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