The Redneck Manifesto (book)
- The Redneck Manifesto (book)
Infobox Book
name = The Redneck Manifesto
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author = Jim Goad
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country = United States
language = English
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subject = Rednecks -- United States -- Social conditions. Rednecks -- United States -- Economic conditions. Working class whites -- United States -- Social conditions. Working class whites -- United States -- Economic conditions.
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publisher = Simon & Schuster
release_date = 1997
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pages = 274
isbn = ISBN 0684831139
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The Redneck Manifesto is the title of a 1997 book by author Jim Goad in which he delineates some of his views about what he sees to be the disenfranchisement of lower-class white people, and how certain aspects of American society such as racism and sexism cover what he sees as a deeper concern relating to class conflict. His thesis is that the rich elite blind the poor and cause them to fight one another instead of working together for their mutual benefit and confronting the rich elite.
Goad, a journalist by training, claims that most U.S. American whites stem from poor Europeans who were brought to the New World in shackles, like the African slaves later. Convicts, beggars, orphans and kidnapped were sent to America and the Caribbean colonies to work the land. The writer compares their plight to slavery and argues that the institution of indentured servitude has been falsely portrayed as an option of free choice. His strong, albeit somewhat humorous and controversial defense of the white underclass, aka "white trash", is largely based on the assumption that its members have been wronged throughout history, while they have been denied their rights by the upper classes' insistence on portraying the position of the poor as a result of bad choice and character, unlike the poor of other ethnic backgrounds.
External links
* [http://www.jimgoad.net/ Jim Goad personal website]
* [http://www.annonline.com/interviews/970704/biography.html Audio interview about "The Redneck Manifesto"]
* [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/97007865.html Library of Congress Publisher Description]
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