Book description
At the vanguard of the study of race and labour in American history, David R. Roediger is the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness , a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness , he continues that…
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This book made me rethink everything I thought I understood about race and culture. David Roediger is among a group of academics (Matt Wray and Nell Irvin Painter are others) who have been exploring the idea of race as a construction, an invention of relatively recent origin.
It–to borrow the words of a student of mine with whom I shared this book’s findings–“blew my mind” to discover that markers of identity I was taught to consider fixed and immutable (i.e., black and white) were, in fact, created and enforced for the benefit of capitalist oligarchs, first in order to justify…
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