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Redneck er historisk set et nedsættende amerikansk slangudtryk brugt om fattige, hvide, sydstatsfarmere i USA.[1] Udtrykket minder i betydning om "cracker" (især i relation til Georgia and Florida), "hillbilly" (især i relation til Appalacherne)[2] og "white trash".[3][4] Den mest almindelig amerikanske brug af ordet, dvs. i betydningen fattige hvide på landet i det sydlige USA, kommer sandsynligvis af, at folk kunne have en rød nakke som følge af arbejde ude i solen.
Et citat fra 1893 definerer rednecks som "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".[5]
Referencer
- ^ Harold Wentworth, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang (1975) p. 424.
- ^ Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly, A Cultural History of an American Icon, Oxford University Press (2004), pg 39.
- ^ Wray (2006) page x.
- ^ Ernest Cashmore and James Jennings, eds. Racism: essential readings (2001) p. 36.
- ^ Frederic Gomes Cassidy & Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English, 2002, p. 531.
- Abbey, Edward. "In Defense of the Redneck", from Abbey's Road: Take the Other. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979
- Goad, Jim. The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997
- West, Stephen A. From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915 (2008)
- Weston, Ruth D. "The Redneck Hero in the Postmodern World", South Carolina Review, Spring 1993
- Wilson, Charles R. and William Ferris, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, (1989)
- Wray, Matt. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (2006)
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- Poor Whites — The Georgia Encyclopedia Arkiveret 29. august 2012 hos Wayback Machine (historie)
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