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

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Author: David R. Roediger

ISBN-10: 1859842402

ISBN-13: 9781859842409

Category: Slavery & Abolitionism - African American History

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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