The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072FRY6PX |
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| Number of Pages | : | 298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. In a new preface, Roediger reflects on the reception, influence, and critical response to The Wages of Whiteness, while Kathleen Cleaver's insightful introduction hails the importance of a work that has become a classic.. 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. P. Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E
Ben said Five Stars. This book provides a perspective of the racial element of labor and class construction that everyone should read.. it is a great resource book for papers This is a classic work on white racism and its genesis. Roediger takes the reader in thorough examination of the effects of whitenessit is a great resource book for papers.. Lionel S. Taylor said An Interesting Study on Race and the American Working Class. This book looks at the very interesting question of why the American labor movement did not embrace the cause of Black emancipation and civil right. On the surface it would seem that the two wold have enough in common to share a common cause. Not so argues Roedinger. In fact he argues that the emerging industrial worker of the mid to late 19th century who was low skilled and often times a recent immigrant from Ireland or Germany had a