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I saw that one, on netflix. It was an OK opinion-piece in favour of school choice, although it wasn't very deep, and didn't seem to suggest any concrete steps forwards. If you're interested in this sort of material, I recommend a book called "No Excuses" which I found more interesting that focused on what some unusually successful charter schools are doing right, that might help some failing school districts. No matter what happens in education reform, I think the students and parents are often a key difference between "good" schools and "bad" schools, so moving to a community where enough people share our family's value of education may remain the only good option for finding a really good school district.

One of classes this summer (also a student teacher) had us read The Trouble with Black Boys. Sounds like these students have experienced what they perceive as racism from previous or current teachers and now it's become the expectation. I wouldn't let this discourage you, but try to gain their trust and break that expectation. I am dealing with this at my own placement, with an African American student as well, and I have learned a great deal about patience.

Edit: Also this book by Ladson-Billings

There is a new category of social conservatives which appeared... I was about to say recently, but I'm not even sure it's that new. I'd be tempted to call them "common-sense conservatives", but common sense is such a subjective measure, so I'll go with "reactionary conservatives".

They're basically the ones saying the pendulum went way too much in the progressive direction, in certain respects - not society at large, maybe, but some environments: colleges, parts of online, parts of corporate culture. They're pointing out several liberal fallacies which are either factually incorrect, or pretty obviously wrong.

There is a very good source for what they're standing for, if you have the patience to read it. If not, google found this shorter video.

If you want I can give concrete examples, but I think the sources will do it better than me.

I recommend everyone in this thread to read this book:

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

It's very well written, insightful and amusing. And it does tackle the redneck and white trash lifestyle and explain things quite well. Good read.

> This is an excellent sobering book, very easy to read because its anecdotal. Many of the people in this book could be family and neighbors, these stories are so real and familiar. What stands out is the astonishing lack of social trust. I'm not sure many of our favorite classical marxist theorists have really tackled how to create class consciousness among these types of individuals, or a society packed with them.
> https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Short-Working-Class-Adulthood-Uncertainty/dp/0190231890

There is an excellent book on this subject called [The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats] (http://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648). Highly recommended for people who are interested social history.

What about Indigenous geopolitics? Might I recommend:

• Secwépemc People, Land and Laws – Detailed info about one land/country and its peoples: Secwepemcúl'ecw
  
• A Rightful Place - Overview of Indigenous–Crown relations of Australia from the Original Peoples' sides
  
• Unsettling Canada - Secwépemc elder telling it how it is in Canada
  
• Through Indian Sign Language - Rare insight into the most important language/tool on this continent
  
  If you want to go dark and depressing, but factual and informative:
  
  
• An American Genocide - Just the California genocides in graphic detail
  
• American Apartheid - Information about the ongoing Apartheid State that the United States upholds

Wow, I'm surprised Jim Goad is still writing. I read his book The Redneck Manifesto about a decade ago, funny stuff.


The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats Paperback – May 5, 1998


>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.

Whatever term works for you. I don't mind if they're from the city or the country. I've been interested in the topic ever since reading The Redneck Manifesto. If you can describe yourself as a redneck, cracker, white trash, hillbilly, yokel or hick I'd like to hear your story.

Would recommend this book on the subject.

Tl;dr it’s somewhat true if you’re born into money.

This book on the subject is fucking fantastic, btw.

I'd recommend Bicycle/Race as well as Bike Lanes are White Lanes

>It's not a lie that Jeff Foxworthy and Larry The Cable Guy's audience is almost entirely lower class white people, their shows and movies have been marketed exclusively to them since the beginning.

And your point is?

Basically, I rest my case. Here's an underprivileged and undereducated population that has been taught that it's OK to laugh at and make fun of everything they are and not only that, they should somehow be perversely proud of their backwardness.

As far as I'm concerned, that's clinical malfeasance on a grand cultural scale.

The dirty truth is that while racism is a big no no, classism is still open season in this country so long as it's poor whites that you're making fun of. The fact that it's rednecks and hillbillies themselves who laugh the hardest at their own lack of dignity bespeaks precisely of the problem.

These are a people who have, on a grand cultural scale, been given little or no recognition and dignity within our wider cultural milieu. Yeah, Doc Watson is probably one of the baddest-ass guitar players of all time, sure, Earl Scruggs plays a mean banjo and Emmy Lou Harris sure can sing. Flannery O'Connor is one of our greatest short story writers and Sam Walton owns your ass and neighborhood, but guess what? They're the exceptions, not the rule, the ones who for whatever reason were able to break out of Appalachia.

The fact is that no one gives a fuck about poor white people, least of all themselves, and this is exactly the type of pathology that sociologists have come to expect in the forgotten corners of society.

Edit: I cordially refer you to Jim Goad's excellent book, "The Redneck Manifesto" for an often humorous but nonetheless in-depth look at the issue.

The book the writer was working on at the time, the strikingly but misleadingly titled Redneck Manifesto, is truly great. It's like a print version of the most biting, knowledgeable, and funny commentary at TiA—but written two decades ago. It was "ahead of its time," as people say when they don't know how long the world's already been the same kind of fucked up it is now.

Reviewers I'd expected to embrace it all had the same wrongheaded complaints about it. The first was that it's a "Marxist" book. Nobody (to this day) seemed to recognize it as a unique entry in a long tradition that's recently come to be called libertarian class analysis, a framework that the non-establishment right (and some of what refuses to call itself the "right" because "right" means redneck cooties) is just now finally coming (back) around to. It's the original, irrecuperable, not bullshit version of "privilege" talk, the one longed for by everyone who thinks there's something to it but it's gone too far now. That's not quite what happened.

Reviewers' other complaint was that too much of a book that said Redneck on the cover was about the proto-"hipster" scene the author lived in, the conspicuous alterna-consumers and self-obsessed public diarists ("'zine" makers) of the post-punk world. '90s tumblrinas! He accurately pegged their cultish pen-pal network as a hazardously overspilling poison vat of hypocritical upper-class white assholery, cultivated pseudo-illness and pseudo-guilt, etc.—everything that makes us here today wonder "Where the fuck did all this shit come from?!"

He saw it first. He even predicted the "trucker hat" fad and the return of lumberjack beards. How the fuck?!

A lot of Goad's other work is crazy and/or trollin', but Redneck is a monster truth bomb about the one thing he truly understands. Non-referrer Amazon link because Thought Catalog is fuccbois. Best $1 (plus shipping) you can spend right now.

>Never underestimate how much "greater society" influences people. It's about pop culture...

I am all too aware of the corrosive effect of pop culture on society. I currently teach English and ethics as an adjunct at a community college here in northeast Ohio (Akron/Cleveland) area while finishing my law degree. 85 to 90% of my students are black (25% of my last class had seen prison time) and I regularly receive essays full of 'text-speak' (e.g. 'u' for 'you') extolling the virtues of looking 'fresh' and other such nonsense. I also taught freshman level philosophy courses at Ohio University and had similar experiences though not as pronounced.

>This was an experiment conducted by scientists...

Well, social scientists anyway... : )

>However, you aren't recognizing the impact race has on determining class.

I do recognize this and referred to it somewhere in this thread when asking someone about the legacy of slavery and segregation. I agree that this is one factor that does limit minorities, though I think it is more an issue of how it affects class presently (it's a longer journey to the top when one starts at the bottom) than one of overt racism.

>But it is very different that almost no minorities have any generational wealth.

The minorities and I, we have a lot in common. : )

Please don't get the impression that I am insensitive to the plight of minorities or in some state of denial regarding the persistence of racism. My point is simply that while racism continues to be an issue, class is the more daunting obstacle (though there is of course a relation between race and class).

You should read this book. The title is intentionally silly and the author has a great sense of humor, but there is much more to the book than that.

Have a nice day "cute little middle class white girl!" : )

Good read:
https://www.amazon.ca/White-Canada-Forever-Attitudes-Orientals/dp/0773523227

I've worked on papers that, while not specifically associated with urban renewal, rely on many of the same sources.

> Finding sources for Pittsburgh and Boston are a bit more difficult

First of all, you're on your own with Pittsburgh. But, I have enough BOSTON sources to kill an elephant about urban renewal, socioeconomic conditions pre-, during-, and post- the renewal projects, the political context (againt, pre-, during-, and post-), the philosophical context of "modernism", the infrastructural context (this is my particular field, fwiw), the economic context, and a few sources that tie all of those together. So, the question is: how much do you need (speaking from experience, sometimes having too much is worse than having too little)? What do you need? Books (I recommend Urban Villagers by Herbert Gans)? Primary vs secondary (loads of both...easily 1000+ period documents)?

Now....this is just a thought. If this a serious project (which it appears to be - good on you) and you want to know more about how/why/where/when/etc... urban renewal came to be in Boston, you're more than welcome to PM me and I can help out.

Recently read this book: Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

Author talked about how neoliberal economics (deregulation, eroding social safety net) makes life much more uncertain, and thus stressful, on young adults.

Basically - the whole "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" line where society constantly says you, and only you, and responsible for your fate, regardless of circumstance. Very anxiety-inducing.

And the this book: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging talks about how humans, on a fundamental evolutionary level, are communal creatures. "We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.

Jim Goad made a very good start in the late 90s through his book the red neck manifesto- a worthy read. After you read it you see their racism everywhere.

https://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648

Things to Buy
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Check out: http://www.amazon.com/Nations-Matter-Culture-History-Cosmopolitan/dp/0415411874

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6967.html

http://www.amazon.com/Nationalist-Politics-Everyday-Ethnicity-Transylvanian/dp/069113622X

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870500465611

http://nl.aup.nl/books/9789053569566-national-thought-in-europe.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Crises-Multiculturalism-Alana-Lentin/dp/1848135815

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-politics-of-home-jan-willem-duyvendak/?K=9780230293984

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo6017282.html

found it!
https://www.amazon.com/Walls-Racism-Sexism-dont-matter/dp/1546692444/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495901266&sr=8-1&keywords=walls+why+racism+and+sexism+don%27t+matter

It's from a book by Jack Bernstein

https://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolitan-Canopy-Race-Civility-Everyday/dp/0393340511

His book Redneck Manifesto should be required reading in high school.

There's an entire book about this.

See The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

in the meantime read this

The "pretend race doesn't exist" approach is absolutely wrong. People of color don't have the liberty of pretending they aren't subject to constant institutional discrimination. All your approach does is show off your privilege and encourage children to ignore the struggles other people face.

Here's a better approach: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Learning-Anti-Racism-Developmental-Approach/dp/0807736376

I taught for four years in an inner city school. Read the book, "no excuses, closing the racial gap in learning" and they mentioned KIPP. Had no idea who they were, but visited one of their schools. Realized it was time to leave and applied for a position at every KIPP school in the country. Got the position at the school in the city I wanted and haven't looked back.

This is probably the best argument I've ever read describing what racism is really about. It is inflammatory at first, but you have to read on through to understand Goad's purpose. Cannot recommend it enough.

Jews are not the root of the problem, because Jewishness is not an ideology. Progressivism is.

Case in point: There are barely any Jews on this list. Think about Merkel or Juncker. On the other side, there is this book and its author, a Jew https://www.amazon.com/Hating-Whitey-Other-Progressive-Causes/dp/1441767150

In case you're unaware of Mr. Goad...

http://takimag.com/contributor/JimGoad/205#axzz4TjM1td6E

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

https://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648

https://books.google.com/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&pg=PA102&dq=spin+jim+goad&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihp9X30tDOAhVM6WMKHZeNDM0Q6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=spin%20jim%20goad&f=false

This is a book that was made into a movie. It stars Hilary Swank as a new teacher in a highschool that is over-run by gangs and what-not. But what it is basically, is all these kids have no real family at home, some of them are even homeless. And since they have no one to talk to, she gives each of them journals to tell stories of their lives past and present. Excerpts from their journals were put into a book. Its a very touching film.movie --Book

>hate crimes apply to any racially motivated crime, whether it's white on black or black on white.

Unfortunately the US judicial system says otherwise.

>affirmative action is not my bag and I never mentioned it

Because it goes against your belief that white men aren't oppressed.

>white men do get public assistance too

I can name several people I know personally who were turned down for public assistance specifically because they were white. I have been as well.

>your points make no sense and I am getting pretty tired of this

They make no sense to you because you're programmed to believe otherwise. Step outside the brainwashing for a moment.

http://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219888166&sr=8-1

Read it and get back to me.


edit

And for the record, I'm a registered Democrat, pro Gay marriage, pro Choice, and pro equal rights.

I remember I took a class called race relations in college and in the text book it defined racism as being something committed by whites on minorities, it always bothered me that it made it seem like a one way street. (I don't remember it verbatim because this was like 6 years ago). The definition seemed fuck up to me though because it seemed counter-productive to the entire purpose of the class but no one else in the class of 200 some kids said anything and I wasn't about to be that guy.

It was this book if I remember correctly.


http://www.amazon.com/Racism-American-Cauldron-3rd-Edition/dp/0321023692

The Redneck Manifesto, Jim Goad puts a good finger on why exactly people in the US confuse class with race and even predicted the rise of SJWs to some extent years ago. Other material such as Lies my Teacher Told me and A people's history of the United States help put a better perspective from a historical standpoint.

TL;DR the books: The Wealthy (read: Not rich, but wealthy) decided that after the Civil War and after the conclusion of the French Revolution, they would pit the poor against each other and fight for the scraps instead of turning their eyes upward and see who is dropping the scraps. Seems to be working well.

Read this book if you are interested in learning more about the beginnings of the white slave trade and forced indentured servitude. It is truly an eye opener and all of it's statistics and figures are backed up with the sources you seek.

It explains in great detail why being a white indentured servant was often much worse than being a black slave. In short, a slave was property that was paid for and owned so you generally took care of them. An indentured servant was like a rental and if they died during their service period it was beneficial because you didn't have to pay them out with property at the end of their term.

During that time in Ireland it was a crime to be poverty stricken and something as innocent as begging for bread was enough to have you arrested and put on a ship to America or Barbados and forced into indentured servitude. The term redneck comes from pale Irish whites that were worked in the Barbados sun. It was a way for the upper class to maintain control and have peasants removed from the landscape to further their grasp on the country and it's resources.

Do you ever wonder why everyone claims that America was founded by entitled whites and built by black slaves yet most white people are poor and own no property? It is because most of us are descendants of lower class servants, not noblemen. All told more Irish people were forced into this situation than black slaves were brought over from Africa.