Redneck

thumb|Rednecks for Obama Redneck er historisk set et nedsættende amerikansk slangudtryk brugt om fattige, hvide, sydstatsfarmere i USA.Harold Wentworth, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang (1975) p. 424. Udtrykket minder i betydning om "cracker" (især i relation til Georgia and Florida), "hillbilly" (især i relation til Appalacherne)Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly, A Cultural History of an American Icon, Oxford University Press (2004), pg 39. og "white trash".Wray (2006) page x.Ernest Cashmore and James Jennings, eds. Racism: essential readings (2001) p. 36. Den mest almindelig amerikanske brug af ordet, dvs. i betydningen fattige hvide på landet i det sydlige USA, kommer sandsynligvis af, at folk kunne have en rød nakke som følge af arbejde ude i solen.

Et citat fra 1893 definerer rednecks som "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".Frederic Gomes Cassidy & Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English, 2002, p. 531.

Referencer

Abbey, Edward. "In Defense of the Redneck", from Abbey's Road: Take the Other. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979 Goad, Jim. The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997 West, Stephen A. From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915 (2008) Weston, Ruth D. "The Redneck Hero in the Postmodern World", South Carolina Review, Spring 1993 Wilson, Charles R. and William Ferris, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, (1989) Wray, Matt. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (2006)

Eksterne henvisninger

Poor Whites — The Georgia Encyclopedia (historie)

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