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The Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class Hardcover - 1991

by David R. Roediger

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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.

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  • Title The Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class
  • Author David R. Roediger
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Later printing
  • Pages 191
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1991-09-17
  • ISBN 9780860913344 / 0860913341
  • Ages 18 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 13
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91018855
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

Media reviews

“At last an American labor historian realizes that white workers have a racial identity that matters as race matters to workers who are not white.”—Nell Irwin Painter, Princeton University

“A timely and important intervention in the current debates over ‘race’ and ethnicity.”—Catherine Hall, New Left Review

“Roediger’s exciting new book makes us understand what it means to see oneself as white in a new way. An extremely important and insightful book.”—Lawrence Glickman, The Nation

“The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies.”—SPLN

About the author

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."
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