Odd Tribes

John Hartigan Jr. is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Part I 1. Picturing the Underclass: Myth Making in the Inner City 332. Blood Will Tell: The Nationalization of White Trash 593. Unpopular Culture: The Case of White Trash 1094. Reading Trash: Deliverance and the Cultural Poetics of White Trash 1355. Talking Trash: White Poverty and Marked Forms of Whiteness 1476. Green Ghettos and the White Underclass 167Part II 7. Establishing the Fact of Whiteness 1878. Locating White Detroit 2059. Object Lessons in Whiteness: Antiracism and the Study of White Folks 23110. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race 257Notes 289Reference 327Index 355

“Beautifully written, theoretically sophisticated, and passionately iconoclastic, Odd Tribes should be required reading for anyone interested in the study of race and social inequalities. Its difficult lessons-for both liberal academics and antiracist practitioners-need to be absorbed and understood.”-Matt Wray, coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness “For John Hartigan Jr., race is not a fixed, abstract social fact but a fluid, heterogeneous, situated field of racializing practices. Odd Tribes deftly develops this approach through a series of lively accounts of how lower-class whites have been racialized in ways that simultaneously normalize whiteness. An elegant, fresh, provocative, often surprising, and ultimately hopeful work that argues forcefully for a cultural perspective on racial matters.”-Susan Harding, author of The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics "[A]n important and critical engagement with what is sometimes called 'whiteness studies.' . . . Using his research in Detroit, Hartigan convincingly traces the varied and varying way in which race is lived in a context that is highly racialized, and yet not all social encounters are necessarily about race." - Bridget Byrne (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)