"You "Might" Be a Redneck "if"..." Boundary Work among Rural, Southern Whites

Autor/in	Shirley, Carla D.
Titel	"You "Might" Be a Redneck "if"..." Boundary Work among Rural, Southern Whites
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 89 (2010) 1, S.35-61 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Social Characteristics; Whites; Rural Areas; Interviews; Racial Identification; Classification; Social Status; Mississippi + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesellschaftsbild; White; Weißer; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Sozialer Status
Abstract	Using 42 in-depth interviews with rural, Southern whites in Mississippi, I examine the intra-racial boundary work respondents use to construct their regional and racial identities in relation to other whites in their communities, particularly "rednecks". I find that "rednecks" are defined and categorized in multiple ways based on the respondents' conceptions of Southerners, social statuses (i.e., age, gender, class and residential history), and intra-racial comparisons around these social characteristics. Primarily, they draw intra-racial distinctions to separate themselves from negative characterizations and to claim positive associations with being rural, Southern whites. Nonetheless, the multi-faceted intra-racial boundary work around "redneck" maintains the general hegemony of whiteness by marginalizing "lesser whites" and forms of whiteness and claiming an ideal type of whiteness that is considered untainted, normative and superior. (Contains 10 notes and 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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