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

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Verso, 1999 - 200 pages
THE WAGES OF WHITENESS provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In an Afterword to this second edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself--then surveys criticism of his work. He accepts the views of some critics but challenges others.
 

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Settler Colonialism
19
Race and the Languages of Class from the Revolution
41
White Slaves Wage Slaves and Free White Labor
65
Work Culture and Whiteness in Industrializing America
93
Minstrelsy and White Working
115
IrishAmerican Workers and White Racial Formation
133
The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate
165
Afterword to the Revised Edition
185
Index
191
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À propos de l'auteur (1999)

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 Hallrsquo;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.

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