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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) - Hardcover
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
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About the Author:
David Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. He is the editor of Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson, The North and Slavery and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White as well as a new edition of Covington Hall’s Labor Struggles in the Deep South. His articles have appeared in New Left Review, Against the Current, Radical History Review, History Workshop Journal, The Progressive and Tennis.
Review:
“At last an American labor historian realizes that white workers have a racial identity that matters as race matters to workers who are not white.”—Nell Irwin Painter, Princeton University
“A timely and important intervention in the current debates over ‘race’ and ethnicity.”—Catherine Hall, New Left Review
“Roediger’s exciting new book makes us understand what it means to see oneself as white in a new way. An extremely important and insightful book.”—Lawrence Glickman, The Nation
“The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies.”—SPLN
“A timely and important intervention in the current debates over ‘race’ and ethnicity.”—Catherine Hall, New Left Review
“Roediger’s exciting new book makes us understand what it means to see oneself as white in a new way. An extremely important and insightful book.”—Lawrence Glickman, The Nation
“The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies.”—SPLN
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- PublisherVerso
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0860913341
- ISBN 13 9780860913344
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages200
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