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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon

ISBN: 9780198033431 ;ISBN: 0198033435 ;ISBN: 0195189507 ;ISBN: 9780195189506 ;ISBN: 9780195146318 ;ISBN: 019514631X ;EISBN: 9780199788835 ;EISBN: 0199788839 ;EISBN: 9780195146318 ;EISBN: 019514631X ;EISBN: 9780198033431 ;EISBN: 0198033435 ;EISBN: 019988191X ;EISBN: 9780199881918 ;DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189506.001.0001 ;OCLC: 826490244 ;OCLC: 922953034

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  • Title:
    Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
  • Author: Harkins, Anthony
  • Subjects: American Folklore ; Contemporary History (Post 1945) ; General history of North America United States ; General Studies ; Group identity ; Hillbillies ; Mountain people ; Mountain people in popular culture ; Popular culture ; Public opinion ; Race identity ; Racial Identity ; Social and Cultural History ; Traditional Culture, Folklore and Folklife ; United States ; US Cultural History ; Whites ; Whites in popular culture
  • Description: This book examines the evolution of one of the most pervasive and enduring American icons from the 18th-century to the present day. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from comics to country music to television and the Internet, the book argues that the longevity of the hillbilly stems from its ambiguity as a marker of both social derision and regional pride. Typically associated with Appalachia or the Ozarks, the “hillbilly” was viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the social order, and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production. The character was therefore both a foil to an increasingly urbanizing and industrializing America and a symbol of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. The book also argues that “hillbillies” have played a critical role in the construction of whiteness and modernity. Middle-class Americans imagined hillbillies, with their supposedly pure Anglo-Saxon or Scottish origins, as an exotic race, akin to blacks and Indians, but still native and white, as opposed to the growing influx of immigrants in the first half of the 20th century. At the same time, the image's whiteness allowed crude caricatures of Southern mountaineers to persist long after similar ethnic and racial stereotypes had become socially unacceptable.
  • Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press
  • Creation Date: 2003
  • Format: 337
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780198033431
    ISBN: 0198033435
    ISBN: 0195189507
    ISBN: 9780195189506
    ISBN: 9780195146318
    ISBN: 019514631X
    EISBN: 9780199788835
    EISBN: 0199788839
    EISBN: 9780195146318
    EISBN: 019514631X
    EISBN: 9780198033431
    EISBN: 0198033435
    EISBN: 019988191X
    EISBN: 9780199881918
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189506.001.0001
    OCLC: 826490244
    OCLC: 922953034
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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