The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fictionampampnbspuncovers a rich archive of white trash fiction in the Caribbean and its surrounding regions. After the abolition of slavery affluent white planters underwent a period of identity crisis where wealth no longer maintained their privileges and yet they did not belong to the group of newly freed peoples. Ramn E. SotoCrespo analyzes the literary legacy of those who came under the label of white trash. This book argues that during the midtwentieth century white trash started off as a trope in pulp fiction and subsequently became absorbed into what we now think of as canonical literature. InampampnbspThe White Trash MenaceampampnbspSotoCrespo pairs novels from William Faulkner and Jean Rhys with pulp authors such as Edgar Mittelholzer and Kyle Onstott in order to provide an alternate account of the literary development of race and class in the Americas. Together these works constitute a circumAtlantic whitetrash world of letters a hemispheric network of decapitalized whiteness that challenges how we imagine literary history by departing from nationbased models of aesthetic development. By providing a genealogy of literary circulationampampnbspThe White Trash Menaceampampnbsplikewise challenges conventional understandings of white trash and more broadly challenges our understanding of literature class and race in the Americas.ampampnbspampampnbsp