Full name: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

Author: David R. Roediger Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction, Economics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781859842409 9781844671458 1859842402 1844671453

This study the formative years of working-class racism in the United States discusses whiteness and the changing face of labour. The author surveys criticisms of his work, accepting many such criticisms while challenging others, especially the view that the study of working-class racism implies a rejection of Marxism and radical politics. Similar books: Whiteness of a Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobson Making Whiteness by Grace Elizabeth Hale Working Toward Whiteness by David R. Roediger How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev The History of White People by Nell Painter The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin To Be a Slave by Julius Lester Local People by John Dittmer They Say in Harlan County by Alessandro Portelli Origins of the New South by C. Vann Woodward Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter