Wages of Whiteness - Race and the Making of the American Working Class

Zusatztext “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 Informationen zum Autor David R. Roediger Klappentext An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. Zusammenfassung Combining classical Marxism! psychoanalysis and the labor history pioneered by E P Thompson and Herbert Gutman! this book provides a study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. It surveys scholarship on whiteness! and discusses the changing face of labor in the twenty-first century.

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• Authors: Kathleen Cleaver, Mike Davis, David Roediger, David R Roediger, David R. Roediger, Michael Sprinker
• Assisted by: Mike Davis (Editor), Kathleen Cleaver (Introduction), Mike Davis (Editor of the series), Michael Sprinker (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2007
• EAN: 9781844671458
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-145-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Haymarket (Paperback); Haymarket Series; Haymarket; Haymarket Series
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