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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket) (Paperback)

by David Roediger (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Verso; Rev Ed edition (1 Jul 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844671453
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844671458
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 387,364 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Roediger's exciting book makes us understand what it means to see oneself as white in a new way. An extremely important and insightful book." - The Nation"

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This is the new, fully updated edition of this now-classic study of working-class racism. 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 States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to blacks. In a lengthy new introduction, Roediger surveys recent scholarship on whiteness, and discusses the changing face of labor in the twenty-first century.

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This review is from: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket) (Paperback)
This book challenges white male racism, proving once again that white males are racist not only when they are affluent, but when they are "working class", a term that bears some scrutiny, because even if a Black person recieves the same wages, they are of course subject to the horrors of racism. When *will* white males ever figure this out???
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