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Worked to the Bone: A History of Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky

Worked to the Bone: A History of Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky

Buck, Pem Davidson

Hardcover

General United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1583670467
ISBN13: 9781583670460
Publisher: Monthly Review Pr
Published: Feb 15 2002
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.56 Depth: 9.92
Language: English

Worked to the Bone is a provocative examination of race and class in the United States and the mechanics of inequality. In an elegant and accessible style that combines thoroughly documented sociological insight with her own compelling personal narrative, Pem Buck illustrates the ways in which constructions of race and the promise of white privilege have been used at specific historical moments to divide those in the United Statesspecifically, in two Kentucky countieswho might have otherwise acted on common class interests. From the initial creation of the concept of whiteness and early strategies focused on convincing Europeans, regardless of their class position, to identify with the eliteto believe that what was good for the elite was good for themto the moment between 1750 and 1800 when most people who were identified by their European descent finally came to believe that skin color was as integral to their identity as gender, the promise of white privilege underpinned the Kentucky system.

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