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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Become White. The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

David R. Roediger

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By an award-winning historian of race and labor, a definitive account of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America

At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century, recounting how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country.

While some historians have claimed that these immigrants were "white on arrival," Roediger paints a very different picture, showing that it wasn't until the 1920s (ironically, just when immigration laws became much more restrictive), that these ethnic groups definitively became part of white America, primarily thanks to the nascent labor movement and a rise in home-buying.
From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants -the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods- Working Toward Whiteness explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. In this masterful history, which is sure to be a key text in its field, David Roediger charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the"white ethnics" of America today.

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Whiteness: A Wayward Construction

David R. Roediger; Tyler Stallings; Amelia Jones; Ken Gonzales-Day

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Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past

David R. Roediger

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002

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John Brown

David R. Roediger; W. E. B. Du Bois

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A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.

In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand." DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is a neglected classic.

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Towards the Abolition of Whitness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History

David R. Roediger

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Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History

David R. Roediger

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Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History

David R. Roediger; Ronald C. Kent; Sara Markham

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This contributor volume brings the best work of such established historians as Morris Schappes, Nathan Godfried, and Eric Foner together with the newer voices of Elizabeth Sharpe and Jennifer Bosch. Its eleven essays challenge the boundary between the older, institutional labor history and the more recent social histories of working people. By combining a focus on culture, women's history, and race relations that is characteristic of the best of the latest working-class history with an emphasis on formal protests, leadership, and power, the volume suggests that a truly new labor history will reflect a variety of concerns and draw on diverse inspirations. By placing workers and their organizations convincingly within the context of their culture, the book helps to demonstrate the ways the labor movement has remade this nation and how the nation has shaped the labor movement.

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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

David R. Roediger

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Other editions: Softcover - 1991

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Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day

David R. Roediger; Philip S. Foner

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Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the working day or week historically has been the central issue raised by the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of organization.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1989

Haymarket Scrapbook

David R. Roediger

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Other editions: Softcover - 1986

Dreams and Dynamite: Selected Poems

David R. Roediger; Covington Hall; Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)

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