How America's Landless Poor Defined Politics for Generations

Nancy Isenberg, T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, chronicles the social history of poor whites in the United States, beginning 400 years ago with the landless poor who immigrated to the early British colonies. In White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, she reveals how their existence has defied the concept of a class-free society, and how they’ve been targeted by politicians, parties and social programs over the course of our nation’s history.