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wages of whiteness

Book by David Roediger
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Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United... Google Books
Originally published: 1991
A meticulously researched book, it offers close readings of verbal and visual texts, unfailingly attentive to issues of race, gender, and labor coming together ...
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Description ... An enduring history of how race and class came together to mark the course of the antebellum US and our present crisis. Roediger shows that in a ...
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“In The Wages of Whiteness David Roediger takes a courageous look at the development of white working-class racism and attempts to unravel its complex skein of ...
THE WAGES OF WHITENESS provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In an Afterword to this second ...
In an exceedingly close analysis of language, The Wages of Whiteness documents a distinct racialization of the language of labor, as indicated by the uncoupling ...
Roediger grants agency to white workers by demonstrating how they actively shaped themselves as not only working class, but white and non-slaves. Before the ...
Jun 29, 2017 · Du Bois's reference in Black Reconstruction In America to a “psychological wage” that whiteness offers as supporting that view and, by extension ...
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“In this penetrating study of the origins of white working-class racial attitudes, Roediger profoundly illuminates the new labor history. A distinctive ...
In Part I, in. Chapter 1, Roediger sets forth the conceptual approach to his subject, posing a set of questions of key importance that he has found Marxist.
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the irony Roediger's analysis depicts is a biting one: whiteness as a 'psychological wage' compensated white workers for their own exploitation. white workers ...