"white trash"
A01=Gregg Andrews
Author_Gregg Andrews
Black
boats
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Category=NHTB
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fishing
houseboat
living on the water
lower class
marginalized
Mark Twain
Mississippi River
Missouri
underclass
water
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780807178478
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2022
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy. Gregg Andrews's Shantyboats and Roustabouts uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.
