Not About White Workers: The Perils of Popular Ethnographic Narrative in the Time of Trump
In this essay, we raise concerns about the popular success of contemporary ethnographies that focus on the rural and white “working class.” We identify three major problems that relate to those ethnographies and how they have been taken up as political explanations. First, we argue that the ethnogra...
Main Authors: | Ryan Brownlow, Megan Wood |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cultural Studies Association
2017-12-01
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Series: | Lateral |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.25158/L6.2.8 |
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