Title Lowest white boy / Greg Bottoms

Edition First edition Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations Series In place series In place (Morgantown, W. Va.) Contents Intro; History Kid; Family Reunion, 1979; New Shoes, 1975; Bullet Hole, 1977; Incident at the Pool, 1977; Thumb, 1975; The Pier, 1976; Hell Day, 1976; Dinner Out, 1978; Poor Preparation, 1977; The Student, 1961; Bus Song, 1976; Parachute, 1977; The Field, 1977; Liberalism, 1977; Home Shopping, 1977; Black People in Iran, 1979; First Car, 1978; History Kids Play Pinball, 1979; The Soda Fountain, 1976; History Kid, Again Summary "An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson's observation during the civil rights era: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket." Greg Bottoms writes about growing up white and working class in Tidewater, Virginia, during school desegregation in the 1970s. He offers brief stories that accumulate to reveal the everyday experience of living inside complex, systematic racism that is often invisible to economically and politically disenfranchised white southerners--people who have benefitted from racism in material ways while being damaged by it, he suggests, psychologically and spiritually. Placing personal memories against a backdrop of documentary photography, social history, and cultural critique, Lowest White Boy explores normalized racial animus and reactionary white identity politics, particularly as these are collected and processed in the mind of a child."--Provided by publisher Subject Bottoms, Greg. SUBJECT Bottoms, Greg fast Subject Boys -- Virginia -- Hampton -- Biography White people -- Race identity -- Virginia -- History -- 20th century African American schoolboys -- Virginia -- Hampton -- Social conditions -- 20th century School integration -- Virginia -- Hampton -- Anecdotes Racism -- Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes Working class -- Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century Anti-racism -- Anecdotes BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Anti-racism Attitude (Psychology) Boys Race relations Racism School integration White people -- Race identity Working class -- Attitudes SUBJECT Hampton (Va.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Hampton (Va.) -- Biography Subject Virginia Virginia -- Hampton Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Anecdotes Biographies History Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781946684974 194668497X

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