Colored White Transcending the Racial Past

Name: Colored White Transcending the Racial Past
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ISBN: 9780520240704

ISBN-10: 0520240707

ISBN-13: 9780520240704

Edition: 2002

Authors: David R. Roediger

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David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani--insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in historical context. Roediger illuminates that history in an incisive critique of the current scholarship on whiteness and an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as W.E.B. Du Bois and John Brown. He shows that, for…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


One



All about Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness



Smear Campaign: Giuliani, the Holy Virgin Mary, and the Critical Study of Whiteness



White Looks and Limbaugh's Laugh



White Workers, New Democrats, and Affirmative Action



"Hertz, Don't It?" White "Colorblindness" and the Mark(et)ings of O.J. Simpson (with Leola Johnson)



Toward Nonwhite Histories



Nonwhite Radicalism: Du Bois, John Brown, and Black Resistance



White Slavery, Abolition, and Coalition: Languages of Race, Class, and Gender



The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860



Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the "New-Immigrant" Working Class (with James Barrett)



Plotting against Eurocentrism: The 1929 Surrealist Map of the World



The Past/Presence of Nonwhiteness



What If Labor Were Not White and Male?



Mumia Time or Sweeney Time?



In Conclusion: Elvis, Wiggers, and Crossing Over to Nonwhiteness


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