
‘White trash’ in the ‘basket of deplorables’: Continued crisis of men in America
Author(s) -
Brij Mohan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
environment social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-8975
pISSN - 2424-7979
DOI - 10.18063/esp.2017.01.005
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , white paper , underclass , political science , political economy , sociology , economic history , economy , history , law , economics , chemistry , gene , biochemistry
The ‘post-truth’ society has produced a compound of two sets of new revolutionaries: We have known about the ‘white trash’ for about 400 years. The ‘deplorables’ represent the new Hillbillies left out by the ravages of globalized economy; ‘basement dwellers’ are reluctant liberals unable to confront the new realities of a hopelessly divided nation.