How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama PhenomenonIn this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600's to the present day. From the late seventeenth century - the era in which DuBois located the emergence of "whiteness" - through the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War, to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migration and globalization. Exploring the evidence that the USA will become a majority "nonwhite" nation in the next fifty years, this masterful account shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century. |
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excellent but too short book on racism
User Review - grecm - Overstock.comDavid Roedigers How Race Survived U.S. History is an excellent examination of antiblack racism in American culture tracing its twists and turns through history and contrapuntally interweaving it with ... Read full review
How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictProbing the puzzle of race in U.S. history, Roediger (history, Univ. of Illinois; The Wages of Whiteness) quickly examines patterns of race thinking and exploitation in America from settler ... Read full review
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