A politically relevant selection from "Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music" by Nadine Hubbs

[YoungDemCA]

The American working class has long been coded, however accurately, in terms of a whiteness that in recent years has become less a default status and more a marked condition. Whereas unmarked whiteness still wields tremendous power as privilege, marked whiteness is a growing burden, carrying racist and imperialist stigma.

p. 59.