Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
Summer 2008
Abstract
Erica Jong, writing at Huffington Post about GOP VPcandidate, Governor Sarah Palin: "White trash America certainly has allure for voters. Some people think rednecks are more American than Harvard educated intellectuals of mixed race." Jong's remarks indicate a violent classism among liberal intellectuals that leaves no room for the working class poor. Jong indicates that "Harvard education" is the top of the U.S. education experience and then demonstrates her sense of classist hierarchy that ranks people according to socioeconomic status and other class markers such as weapons.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
No Human Being is Trash
Scholar Commons Citation
McCook, Kathleen de la Peña, "No Human Being is Trash" (2008). School of Information Faculty Publications. 123.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/si_facpub/123
Comments
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