Academic constructions of "white trash," or how to insult poor people without really trying

Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, And The Promise

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 53-66

  Sullivan, Nell ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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