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The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats Paperback – May 5, 1998

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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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Rod Dreher Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel A furious, profane, smart and hilariously smart-aleck defense of working-class white culture.

Crib Magazine In another life, this book was a U-Haul packed to the gills with manure and TNT, left idling near a major government building, or a Smokecraft beef jerky-sponsored monster truck revved and ready to roll over the stuccoed suburban palace where Jeff Foxworthy sleeps.

PDXS A funny, engagingly written polemic....Goad should be congratulated and thanked for cutting through the numerous taboos that prevent an honest discussion of race in this country.

Ethan G. Machado Our Town Dares to rewrite American history, take on government greed and lambaste white liberals....Goad's eight-cylinder prose intentionally rattles the reader, driving home a message that challenges the conventional wisdom of many a Honda Accord owner.

About the Author

Jim Goad himself a proud member of The White Trash Nation, was the creator and chief writer for ANSWER Me!, a controversial "zine" that he used to publish in Los Angeles. He does not presently live in a trailer park but is thinking about it. The Redneck Manifesto is his first book.

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 57342nd edition (May 5, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684838648
ISBN-13: 978-0684838649
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 133 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #99 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Specific Demographics > Minority Studies
- #405 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race Relations > Discrimination & Racism

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Rex Bacon

Hard To Pin This Book Down

May 18, 2018

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Wow. I just finished the book 5 minutes ago. What an incredible read. It’s hard to quickly summarize how I feel about this book. A quick google of Jim Goad will inevitably lead you to multiple hit pieces from tea sipping busy bodies about what a racist extremist he is.

I already knew he wasn’t, but this book further cemented the notion that Goad doesn’t hate minorities or gays, he hates everyone. Don’t imagine this book as left wing or right wing. It’s nothing close to it.

This book is like sitting down with all of blue collar America and hearing them out of one mans mouth dissect and ridicule all of the nonsense peddled today by those who say they have our best interest at heart.

It also amazed me this book was written 21 years ago, but reading it in 2018 it hits on the EXACT same issues we are being bottle fed today.

Amazing book, start to finish. Can’t wait to crack into Goads next work

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Stanley

Something for Everyone to Love and Hate

August 1, 2017

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Author Jim Goad, a college educated working class self described redneck, has written a book that can be panned by just about everyone or praised by just about everyone. Goad first gets the gentle reader's attention with profanity and name calling of everyone including himself and even the reader. No class, ethnicity, or race is spared. His main thesis, though, is that a lot of people have been victims of the wealthy upper classes for a long, long, long time. This victimhood includes whites.

The best chapter in the book deals with the use of white slaves in colonial America. Goad contends there were more white slaves sent from England than from Africa. Steal a loaf of bread and guess what happens. The English government determined that sending slaves to the colonies was more profitable than housing and feeding them in England, and, yes, there were slave auctions of whites. Unfortunately, or fortunately, these whites were to be released after a few years. This permitted slave owners to work them all the harder and most died. Those eventually being freed had little means of support and moved west and thus began the class of poor whites or hillbillies, or rednecks, or crackers or whatever other term Goad can find.

Goad does give interesting tidbits as the term kidnapping comes from the English kid nabbing as poor kids were often dragged off the streets and sent to the colonies. He also states that most white slaves sent to the Caribbean died, too hot, and that blacks were often treated better than whites as they represented long term investment. Later, Goad contends that wealthy people used racism to split blacks and whites and to keep economic and social control.

The worst chapter of the book deals with Goad's neighborhood where he falters from his thesis and describes a true underclass, not typical in my view of working class whites. Hey, I've worked with my hands myself!

At the end of the book he lambasts both conservatives and liberals for being complacent fellow travelers in ignoring all working class people. If Goad is correct this may explain the last election season where both Trump and Sanders found widespread support in places like Michigan. Working people weren't interested in who could use what restroom and few people were accepting of another self-serving Bush. Regardless of political leanings, the reader will find things of interest in the book. For a paperback, paper quality is OK but font could be a bit better.

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The Ignored History of America

March 5, 2017

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Researched like a peer reviewed academic paper but written in the language of a conversation in a bar over a glass of whiskey. Incredibly funny, sad and historically accurate. In this age of diversity and political correctness, it's still okay to malign certain cultures and people (this is but one of those groups) and this is a hard look at how that came to be. A nice compliment to Jim Webb's book Born Fighting.

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May 27, 2017

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Jim Goad will someday, maybe not in his lifetime, be recognized as the intelligent, thought-provoking, boundary-pushing and outright notable 21st century author he is. Even if you disagree with some of his conservative views, the information he floods you with will make you perceive things slightly different directly afterward. Don't be afraid to question some of the things you've though were fact since high school. Yes, it's perfectly reasonable to be a white Westerner and not think you're the cause of the world's problems.

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