Poor White Trash, Great White Hope: Race, Class, and the (De)Construction of Whiteness in Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle

The Critical Reception of Lewis Nordan

“…Brannon Costello’s‘Poor White Trash, Great White Hope: Race, Class, and the (De)Construction of Whiteness in Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle ’– published in the nonsouthern journal Critique – examines the significance of race theory to the construction of white identity. Costello argues that Nordan does not treat ‘whiteness as an invisible, unexamined, privileged state but rather as an extremely visible and problematic condition…’ (209).…”