Sometimes maintained in invisibility, sometimes ridiculed, the white trash figure is, nevertheless, significant in North America. All disciplines are late in the production of a scholarly discourse on this figure that is part of our societies and has been mocked since the colonial era. There is every indication that situating the white trash figure within society and political discourse is a touchy subject that one hesitates to tackle. My hypothesis is that many Québec literary works use the white trash figure, without naming it but utilizing its traits, as an appropriation of racial discourse to amplify the colonized status of Québécois, a state to surpass in order to enter History. After a presentation of the white trash figure’s application in the context of Québec, I will underline the principal characteristics of the white trash, the question of the woman as an accomplice of oppressive systems and, finally, the overtaking of the “degenerate race” stage to become a part of History in Pierre Vallières and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu’s works.