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Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky

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Worked to the Bone is a provocative examination of race and class in the US and the mechanics of inequality. In an elegant and accessible style that combines thoroughly documented sociological insight with her own compelling personal narrative, Pem Buck illustrates the ways in which constructions of race and the promise of white privilege have been used at specific historical moments to divide those in the United Statesspecifically, in two Kentucky countieswho might have in a different way acted on common class interests. From the initial creation of the concept of “whiteness” and early strategies focused on convincing Europeans, irrespective of their class position, to identify with the eliteto consider that what was once good for the elite was once good for themto the moment between 1750 and 1800 when most of the people who were identified by their European descent after all came to consider that skin color was once as integral to their identity as gender, the promise of white privilege underpinned the Kentucky system.

Pem Buck examines the longer term effects of these developments and discusses their have an effect on on the lives of working people in Kentucky. She also analyzes the role of local tobacco-growing and corporate elites in the underdevelopment of the state, highlighting the ways in which relationships between poor white and poor black working people were frequently manipulated to facilitate that process.

Documentary material includes speeches, songs, photographs, charts, cartoons, and ads presented in a large, visually appealing format.

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