The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class - Rilegato

Roediger, David R.

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ISBN 10: 1844671267 ISBN 13: 9781844671267

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2007

Riassunto

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneeredby E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimedbook provides an original study of the formative years of working-classracism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explainedsimply with reference to economic advantage; rather, whiteworking-class racism is underpinned by a complex series ofpsychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racialstereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers inopposition to Blacks.

In a new preface, Roediger reflects on the reception, influence, and critical response to The Wages of Whiteness, while Kathleen Cleaver’s insightful introduction hails the importance of a work that has become a classic.

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Recensione:

“At last an American labor historian realizes that white workers have a racial identity that matters as race matters to workers who are not white.”—Nell Irwin Painter, Princeton University

“A timely and important intervention in the current debates over ‘race’ and ethnicity.”—Catherine Hall, New Left Review

“Roediger’s exciting new book makes us understand what it means to see oneself as white in a new way. An extremely important and insightful book.”—Lawrence Glickman, The Nation

“The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies.”—SPLN

L'autore:

David Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. He is the editor of Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson, The North and Slavery and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White as well as a new edition of Covington Hall’s Labor Struggles in the Deep South. His articles have appeared in New Left Review, Against the Current, Radical History Review, History Workshop Journal, The Progressive and Tennis.

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.

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 are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso’s Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1844671267
• ISBN 13: 9781844671267
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 195