- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Verso (1 Feb 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844674347
- ISBN-13: 978-1844674343
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,270,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This rousing, thought-provoking history illuminates the enveloping 400-year-old history of race in America, and the issues [Roediger] raises are as relevant as ever.A" Publishers Weekly
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An acclaimed exploration of how the idea of race was created and recreated in American history. From the late seventeenth century to the civil-rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, David Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migration and globalization and shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century.
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Difficult history of race in the U.S., 20 Jun 2010
By Gene Cassidy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon: From the American Revolution to the Present (Hardcover)
In the course of any action, there has to be a reason. Roediger says the wealthy in England and the American colonies created the idea of white supremacy as the reason for slavery and taking the Indians' land away from them. He shows how that creation of white supremacy has not only persisted to this day but has been nurtured by United States law and culture for political and economic reasons. It is thoroughly depressing.The book's major fault is its lengthy, serpentine sentences, some of which clearly got away from the editors as well as the author.
Its strength is negotiating 400 years of racial history in what is now the United States in 230 pages.
Roediger wears leftist politics on his sleeve which will prevent some from reading this, and will have others arguing with it at every paragraph. But his politics do not detract from and even service a concise, gimlet-eyed view of the flow of U.S. history regarding race relations.
Roediger concludes that the idea of white supremacy dreamed up centuries ago by entitled Englishmen to justify their brutality is so entwined and supported by current powerful economic and political interests that it will not go away for hundreds of years unless it is aggressively fought. In the age of Obama, this challenges conventional wisdom, just as the book challenges conventional U.S. histories.
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Creation of the very concept of race, 25 July 2010
By Carol Rubin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How Race Survived US History (Paperback)
An excellent, well-researched book on how the very concept of race was created out of fiction as an integral part of American history, including the colonial period. The concept of the "white race" didn't just happen; it took lots of work. This is a fascinating report of the twisted convolutions of laws and the thoughts of leading politicians and philosophers that were required to justify the enslavement of Africans, the destruction of Native Americans culture (they just didn't work out as slaves), and the enthronement of Europeans as the supreme race, even though the privileged Europeans had a hard time figuring out whether the Irish, Italians, Jews, Poles, and others were "white" or not. I thought I knew a fair amount about the creation and maintenance of race in this country but this book synthesizes so much past and recent thinking about American history. Though only 230 pages, it's dense so allow yourself plenty of time to absorb it.
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Great Book, 2 Feb 2012
By Shopping Addict 0904 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How Race Survived US History (Paperback)
The book is insightful and well written. I would recommend it to anyone interested in race relations in the United States.
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