“We ain’t nothing but white trash”: The ethnography of poor whites and the politics of stigma in Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee
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2022
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Djemila Zeneidi, « “We ain’t nothing but white trash”: The ethnography of poor whites and the politics of stigma in Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.1177/09213740211053392
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This article aims to demonstrate the documentary value of Zora Neale, Hurston’s descriptions, in her novel Seraph on the Suwanee, of the condition of the poor white US Southerners known as “crackers.” By, depicting a “cracker” woman’s upward social trajectory through, marriage, Hurston reveals the social and existential reality of this, segment of the white population. Her novel presents an objective, analysis of the crackers as a socio-historical group distinct from other, whites. However, Hurston also explores the subjective side of belonging to this discredited group by offering an account of her heroine’s experience of stigmatization.
