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Lowest White Boy
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Lowest White Boy Paperback - 2019

by Bottoms, Greg

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West Virginia University Press, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Details

  • Title Lowest White Boy
  • Author Bottoms, Greg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher West Virginia University Press
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1946684961I4N00
  • ISBN 9781946684967 / 1946684961
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.4 x 6.4 x 0.6 in (16.26 x 16.26 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Hampton (Va.), Bottoms, Greg
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018040446
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson's observation during the civil rights era: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket."

Greg Bottoms writes about growing up white and working class in Tidewater, Virginia, during school desegregation in the 1970s. He offers brief stories that accumulate to reveal the everyday experience of living inside complex, systematic racism that is often invisible to economically and politically disenfranchised white southerners--people who have benefitted from racism in material ways while being damaged by it, he suggests, psychologically and spiritually. Placing personal memories against a backdrop of documentary photography, social history, and cultural critique, Lowest White Boy explores normalized racial animus and reactionary white identity politics, particularly as these are collected and processed in the mind of a child.

About the author

Greg Bottoms is a professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of many books, including Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art, and Spiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith.