Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Humor and the Boundaries of Middle-Class American Whiteness:

SAGE Open

J. David Thomas¹ 

关键词: whiteness;    redneck humor;    pollution ideology;    boundary theory;    social constructionism;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244016647772

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Recent studies examine the use of rhetorical boundaries to produce intra-racial othering within whiteness. I expand this project by exploring the textual and social codes in Jeff Foxworthy humor that demarcate the boundaries between the redneck and the non-redneck. Such boundaries are complex, porous fault-lines that use symbolic pollution embedded in humor to stigmatize White outsiders. Social codes referencing symbolic pollution establish boundaries to define and insulate a normative, mainstream White identity from the intra-racial threat of redneck identity. This project provides a novel addition to whiteness studies by taking redneck humor analytically seriously and concludes by drawing comparisons between codes found in Foxworthy humor and those levied against rural Whites during the eugenics era.

【 授权许可】

CC BY