The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States.\ 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...
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An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States.
Textual NoteAcknowledgementsPt. IIntroducing the White Worker1On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction32The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 180019Pt. IIRace and the Languages of Class from the Revolution to the Civil War3'Neither a Servant Nor a Master Am I': Keywords in the Languages of White Labor Republicanism434White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor65Pt. IIIWork, Culture and Whiteness in Industrializing America5Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America956White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War1157Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States133Pt. IVThe Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness8Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits167Afterword to the Revised Edition185Index191
\ SPLN“The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies.”\ \ \ \ \ The Nation“An extremely important and insightful book.”\ \ \ Nell Irwin Painter“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.”\ \ \ \ \ Catherine Hall - New Left Review“A timely and important intervention in the current debates over 'race' and ethnicity.”\ \ \ \ \ Lawrence Glickman - The Nation“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.”\ \
