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Everywhere, yesterday's trash culture was exhumed and hauled to new frontiers, in architecture (Coney Island replicated in Las Vegas) and astrogeology (a Martian rock dubbed Scooby Doo). Our critics select a film of a '90s novel set in 1953 and a musical of a '70s novel set in 1906 as the year's best. And what is The X-Files if not a canny updating of '50s bomb sweat? "No matter how paranoid you are," the show tells us, "you're not paranoid enough...
...found that her six-pound baby boy had "died from asphyxia due to manual strangulation or obstruction of the mouth or nose." In the proceeding investigation it was revealed that Drexler had given birth to the baby at her high school prom and then disposed of him in the trash...
With the help of a $500,000 federal grant, city leaders are taking aim at the muddy fields, rusted trash cans and tired paths that many say have turned one of Cambridge's most prized possessions into an eyesore...
Talbot opens her story with a profile of Jennifer Reeder, a part time teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago who goes by the name White Trash Girl. White Trash Girl celebrates the absence of culture that she believes is white culture and says of herself,'"I am busty, and I am loud and I love bad taste. I am bad taste.'" Though she represents an extreme, Talbot writes, "she is also perfectly representative, the mascot of a new, very hot academic field called whiteness studies...
Insofar as this is true, whiteness studies has very little to offer academic, not because "white trash" cannot be an interesting area of study, but because, as West told me, "[t]he whole construct of white trash, which is just as arbitrary and can be just as vicious an any other construct, is what it means to be a particular kind of American, but white American." In other words, people who may be called "white trash" are different from other impoverished members of society only because they are white, but they are not more indicative of white culture, or American...