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Title	:	The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
Author	:	Jim Goad
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	May 5th 1998 by Simon Schuster (first published May 14th 1997)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. Sociology. History. Race

The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.

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Original Title:	The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
ISBN:	0684838648 (ISBN13: 9780684838649)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bigfoot, Jim Goad

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Very enlightening. My son recommended this book as a way of understanding how racism is not a red/black/religious phenomena. Anyone wanting a better understanding of what it really means to be a 'red neck' or 'hill billy' or any of the other thousand derogative terms usually applied to these folks should settle down with this book and a good cup of coffee! It will truly give the reader a better understanding of our early ancestry for those Americans not red, black, or yellow.

This woulda been 5 stars, but Goad has a tendency to write like a teenager. Sure, his insights on race, class, SJW-ism, and all things related are SPOT ON. But his handling of religion is atrocious, as is his sense of direction. This felt less like a cohesive book and more like a collection of Answer Me! articles.All that being said, I recommend this book exclusively on the merits it does have. Theyre well worth enforcing it upon a stupid, brain-dead populace composed of New England bleeding

Fuck. Okay, I think Joad's racist, sexist, and deeply troubling in many ways. On the plus side, he's written an (often) entertaining and probing book about the white lower classes. He's a good writer and has done his research, at least that which suits him. He got pretty deep into the history and implications of indentured servitude. I found this book interesting and strangely gripping, but I made a point not to let my impressionable teenage stepkid anywhere near it.

Eye opening. Goad gives a history of white poverty rarely told. A little laborious at parts but take what you can get from it.

As someone who isn't too far removed from his Cracker roots, I was hoping that this book would be a "Fanfare for the Redneck Man", of sorts.God, was I disappointed. Instead, it's pretty clear that Goad is a self-loathing Redneck, and desperately wishes that he could be part of the "bourgeois" class he claims to despise. If you think I'm lying, check out his obsessive compare/contrast essay on the beautiful lawns of the nicer neighborhoods where he grew up, compared with the squalor of his own

Basically looks at how poor and working class whites are the last acceptable target for hatred in the current pc mind control time we live in now and are the most exploited class in our current society. Goad is a very entertaining writer so despite the subject matter don't think this book is going to be some stiff uptight right wing conservative crap. More of a personal/real world look at anti-white racism and propaganda.

There's a lot to Goad's book and I hope the historical and social punch in the face it offers does not get lost in my reaction. The sources he cites run from Edward Abbey to Howard Zinn. The first third reads as an alternative history lesson, one that made perfect sense when I read it, but the implications of which probably didn't stay with me when I initially learned it because extreme leftism embraces a notion of continuous, uninterrupted white privilege that is heresy to deny. The middle