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

Name: Wages of Whiteness Race and the Making of the American Working Class
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ISBN: 9781844671458

ISBN-10: 1844671453

ISBN-13: 9781844671458

Edition: 3rd 2007

Authors: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver, Mike Davis, Michael Sprinker

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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.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 195
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

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 arealso published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso'sHaymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.



Acknowledgements


Preface to the Third Edition


Introduction




Introducing the White Worker



On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction



The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 1800



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



White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor



Work, Culture and Whiteness In Industrializing America



Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America



White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War



Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States



The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness



Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits


Selected Writings


Index