The potential for racialization of white bodies is a lesson found in the research into the eugenics movement against poor whites in the U.S. When you read the documents, what was going on was that they were being racialized. Here is a discussion of Matt Wray's work on the racialization of white bodies in the post-Civil war eugenics era. Wray is a Bad Subjects alum:
http://cleandraws.com/2008/01/05/the-menace-of-the-feeble-minded/
Vermont eugenics: A Documentary History http://www.uvm.edu/~eugenics/
first brought to our attention at LBO: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1999/1999-November/019511.html
At 11:49 PM 10/11/2009, SA wrote:
>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>What's specifically capitalist about this? Haven't yokels always been
>>suspicious of the folks from over the hill?
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>Fernand Braudel, _The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age
>of Phillip II_, pp. 44-46:
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>>MOUNTAIN DWELLERS IN THE TOWNS.