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

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Verso, 1999 - Discrimination in employment - 200 pages
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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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Contents

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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About the author (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 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.

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.

Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

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TitleThe Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
Haymarket (Paperback)
Haymarket series in North American politics and culture
Haymarket series
AuthorDavid R. Roediger
Editionrevised
PublisherVerso, 1999
ISBN1859842402, 9781859842409
Length200 pages
  
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