{"product_id":"lowest-white-boy-paperback","title":"Lowest White Boy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg Bottoms\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eLowest White Boy \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreg 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, \u003ci\u003e Lowest White Boy \u003c\/i\u003eexplores normalized racial animus and reactionary white identity politics, particularly as these are collected and processed in the mind of a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreg Bottoms is a professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eAngelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.4 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692915134527,"sku":"9781946684967","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a40edbac582df46894ed88d7580096bc.webp?v=1764997075","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/lowest-white-boy-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}