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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Anthony Harkins [Repost]

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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Anthony Harkins [Repost]

Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Anthony Harkins
Oxford University Press | November 20, 2003 | English | ISBN: 019514631X | 336 pages | PDF | 7 MB

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds