Wages Of Whiteness Rev/Exp Cl

by Roediger,David R.

• ISBN13: 9781844671267
• ISBN10: 1844671267
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In a lengthy new introduction, Roediger surveys recent scholarship on whiteness, and discusses the changing face of labor in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
Introducing the White Worker
On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction	p. 3
The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 1800	p. 19
Race and the Languages of Class from the Revolution to the Civil War
'Neither a Servent Nor a Master Am I': Keywords in the Languages of White Labor Republicanism	p. 43
White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor	p. 65
Work, Culture and Whiteness In Industrializing America
Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America	p. 95
White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War	p. 115
Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States	p. 133
The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness
Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits	p. 167
Selected Writings	p. 185
Index	p. 189
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