What’s Wrong with the White Working Class?

Bond, David

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“…Scooter and Lyle can hardly be accused of entertaining fantasies like this once we recognize their pleasure in transgression. 8 I draw this reading of jouissance from Mazzarella (2019), who in turn draws on Berlant's (2017) insight that "shamelessness is an affect of failure on the left" but an "affect of freedom on the right." 9 Hall, Goldstein, and Ingram (2016); Smith (2017); Mazzarella (2019).…”

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“I know I shouldn't say this, but…”

Ahmann

2023

American Anthropologist

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You don't just walk around on Curtis Avenue (Figure 1). It's a one-way road for tanker trucks that drive too fast and kick up dust as they depart this jilted place. The dust: an impossible amalgamation of things held in suspension. 1 Certainly acrolein, which gives the avenue the scent of burning fat. Formaldehyde and benzene. Probably lead. Then there are all the festering resentments that stick to the side of the road until something heavy throws them up into the haze. Thirty, forty years ago, Curtis Avenue was a bustling thoroughfare in South Baltimore-Maryland's petrochemical capital. That was back when the red dust signaled money and there were fourteen different bars to spend it in. Today, money seeps out; that's the one way traffic goes. Today, you don't just walk around on Curtis Avenue without finding yourself in the dust kicked up by someone else's good life.So I was curious when Betty took me there one sticky-hot September day. "This is where the old heads go," Betty whispered from behind the smoke of her third "last" cigarette. Then she chucked it on the avenue, still burning, and ambled into Shirley's Sunnyside Café.Betty was a sixty-something-year-old white woman who scorned most people but who liked me well enough. Perhaps because I'd been her niece's teacher before I left for graduate school, which marked me as familiar where outsiders were not easily embraced. Perhaps because I was a "harmlesslooking" thing: a reference to my size, I'm sure, but also to my gender, to my whiteness, and to my presumed oblivion about the world outside the

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“…1212Fair enough. Caricatures of the “white working class” have been deployed on both sides of the aisle—and specifically as “whipping boy for the identarian left” (Bond, 2021, 42; see also Walley, 2017), whose moral high ground turns on the low ground that this caricature sustains.…”

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“I know I shouldn't say this, but…”

Ahmann

2023

American Anthropologist

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Contamination in theory and protest

Bond

2021

American Ethnologist

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Contamination offers a new observatory for anthropological theory. But does it bring us closer to the world at hand? I have spent the past five years working with residents in Bennington, Vermont, and Hoosick Falls, New York, in pursuit of justice after the toxin PFOA was discovered in their drinking water. Turning from advocacy to writing, I've been struck by how prominent toxicity is becoming in certain currents of anthropological theory and how little those theories illuminate about the protests against contamination I participated in. As the theoretical dazzle of contamination surges forward toward experimental futures, planetary futures, and queer futures, toxicity can become an oracle whose ethnographic significance lies more in its prophetic intimation than in its present inhabitation. Staying close to the experience of a New England community protesting industrial pollution, I show how the ethnographic realities of contamination can orient theory for a better world without first resigning us to the loss of the present. [toxics, materiality, futures, environmental justice, PFAS, plastic pollution, United States]

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What’s Wrong with the White Working Class?

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