The Redneck Manifesto

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Jim Goad (1961), autor y editor estadounidense. Responsable del fanzine de culto ANSWER Me! y el Manifiesto Redneck. Conocido por sus controvertidos puntos de vista sociales y políticos, su obra ha sido descrita como persuasiva , urgente , brutalmente honesta y original por el autor Chuck Palahniuk.