A short history of Redneck: The fashioning of a southern white masculine identity

Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 303-327

  Huber, Patrick ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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