Wages Of Whiteness Rev/Exp Pa

by Roediger,David R.

• ISBN13: 9781844671458
• ISBN10: 1844671453
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-17
• Publisher: Verso Books

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.

Author Biography

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.

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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