Worked to the Bone

Download or read book Worked to the Bone written by Pem Davidson Buck and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines race, class, and the mechanics of inequality in the US, focusing on Kentucky and its political and social transformation from slavery, sharecropping, and Jim Crow through the populist era, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the state's integration into the global economy. The author combines sociological insight with her own personal narrative to illustrate the ways in which constructions of race and the promise of white privilege have been used in two Kentucky counties to divide working class people. Buck teaches anthropology and sociology at a college in Kentucky. c. Book News Inc.