Tuesday, March 25, 2008
White Trash Identity.
I read an article for my project that brought together all of the concepts of identity.“Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn,” it was written by Constance Penley and you can find it at the Innis Library in Pornography and Culture edited by Peter Lehman. Through her personal discussion of growing up in central Florida, she explains succinctly how the "White trash" culture is desperately trying to define itself against the economically equal black culture of the area. The main distinction she can remembers is that white people didn't eat a kind of land turtle, where black people did. On top of explaining this relationship with personal interest, she manages to link it to the aesthetics of pornography. If you want a quick fun read to bring the concepts discussed in class into focus, I highly recommend this article.
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