David Roediger es un distinguido historiador cuya erudición profundiza en los estudios afroamericanos y el intrincado tapiz de la historia estadounidense. Su obra examina críticamente identidades raciales profundamente arraigadas y experiencias de inmigrantes, centrándose a menudo en las perspectivas de los trabajadores blancos. El enfoque de Roediger se caracteriza por un agudo análisis de la historia laboral y el radicalismo, estableciendo conexiones entre campos aparentemente dispares como la poesía y el surrealismo. A través de su extensa investigación, ofrece profundas perspectivas sobre la formación de la sociedad estadounidense y sus complejas dinámicas raciales y de clase.
Argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. This book presents an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as WEB Du Bois and John Brown. schovat popis
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.
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labour
How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?
A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race-class relationship