Subject: A definition of white trash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_trash

racist or not?

in case the link does not work...

The term "designates ruptures of conventions that maintain whiteness as an unmarked, normative identity" and is used "in racialized contexts where class and race differences become conflated, overlapping rather than remaining clear and distinct." The term "materializes a complicated policing of the inchoate boundaries that comprise class and racial identities in this country" (Wray and Newitz 1997, p.46, 47).

However, since the term is the only "white identity which does not view itself as the norm from which all other races and ethnicities deviate" and "because white trash is, for whites, the most visible and clearly marked form of whiteness," this confusion may "perhaps help to make all whites self-conscious of themselves as a racial and classed group, to bring...us one step closer to a world without racial division, or, at the very least, a world where racial difference does not mean racial, symbolic, and economic domination" (ibid, introduction).
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k

Fantastic, want a cookie?

Thanks, but no thanks...I am on the wagon.