>One might also say that Clinton's behavior is
>understood as 'black' whereas it is really
>working class, and this is reconstructed as
>'black' to avoid the generalizing implications . . .
Yeah, you've got a point here. People do like to make fun of Clinton's "white trash" roots. The scene in Primary Colors when Travolta is getting outside all those Krispy Kremes says it all.
>This is not to say that Clinton's life style
>is exclusive to or especially pervasive among
>the working class, only that acknowledgement
>of its commonality (beyond minorities) is
>suppressed.
>
>Explaining this better sounds like a job for
>the POMO's. If only they spoke English.
See Annalee Newitz and Matt Wray, eds., White Trash: Race and Class in America (Routledge, 1996). All in English, with a chapter by yours truly on race, income, and work, called "Trash-o-nomics."
Doug