What impacted that have on you . Ms. Isenberg she was a very unusual person. She came to the university of wisconsin. She had to create a space for us in History Program and that she was someone who was very aware not only of gender and class and racial issues in all the things she wrote about but i think she imparted to me that you also have to understand the politics of academia and the way in which politics in general, we like to believe in america that we are free agents and we are able to sort of carver own destiny, part of our carve our own destiny part of her own destiny, but we do not always good to make the decisions that we want to. She wanted to think about the larger ways culture, politics, the law shaped the way people think even though they might not be aware of it, but to take that into account in do not just take things as given. Challenge them. See if it is really true. That is something that has really motivated me throughout my career, even when you read good history
You said she had a way of demystifying ideologies. What impact did that have on you . Ms. Isenberg she was a very unusual person. She came to the university of wisconsin to set up the womens History Program. She had to create a space for us in the History Program and she was someone who was very aware not only of gender and class and racial issues and all the things she wrote about, but i think she imparted to me that you also have to understand the politics of academia and the way in which politics in general, we like to believe in america that we are free agents and we are able to sort of carve our own destiny, part of her own destiny, but we do not always good to make the decisions that we want to. She wanted to think about the larger ways culture, politics, the law shaped the way people think even though they might not be aware of it, but to take that into account in do not just take things as given. Challenge them. See if it is really true. That is something that has really motiva
I think people are curious about it and that is why i wanted to write the book. I think people throw around that word without really knowing where it comes from. When i began to do more and more research, and as you know, i talk a lot about british colonization, which is not what people have never really paid attention to in talking about white trash. Most people start in the antebellum south. I found an older history and i thought it was important to Pay Attention to language. I talk about all of the vocabulary because i think we miss something about how people think about poverty if we do not understand the language and what those words mean. Brian we have all of those words available to put on the screen, which we will do now, and there are lots of them, white trash, offscourings, lubbers, crackers, clay eaters. Where did those terms come from . Nancy this is what is so curious. You will find each generation changing the vocabulary. The term i paid a lot of attention to is waste peo
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