acknowledging that social hierarchies are often structured by more than one variable ( Lindisfarne and Neale 2013 ) and here an ideal of cultural norms (often linked to class) is of particular relevance to our understanding. The term “White trash” (or “trailer
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the spectrum, there are essays like Susan Sered’s “Pennsatucky’s Teeth and the Persistence of Class,” which uses a tight focus on a particular character’s dental hygiene to explore “an openly ridiculed cultural archetype—white trash” (128). At a
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/Ha-kibbutz Ha-me’ukhad Press . Bar Yosef-Paz , Netta . 2016 . “ White Trash, Literary Trash: Contemporary American Filth-Fiction .” PhD diss. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Ben-Gurion , David . 1955 . “The Meaning of the Negev.” [In Hebrew.] 17