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  • The Sinking Middle Class

    A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right

    by David Roediger ...
    The Sinking Middle Class challenges the “save the middle class” rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a providentially middle class nation. Implicitly white, the middle class becomes viewed as unheard amidst supposed concerns for racial justice and for the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Class, Race, and Marxism

    by David Roediger ...
    Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association C.L.R. James AwardSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Ordinary White

    My Antiracist Education

    by David Roediger ...
    A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolutionWritten by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story of the historian and radical American writer, David Roediger.With wry wit and keen observation, Roediger chronicles his intellectual and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • How Race Survived US History

    From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism

    by David R. Roediger ...
    An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and laborThe Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture.Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Production of Difference

    Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

    by David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch ...
    In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a radically new way of understanding the history of management in the United States, placing race, migration, and empire at the center of what has ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Black on White

    Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

    by David R. Roediger ...
    In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity

    by Noel Ignatiev ...
    A new collection of essays from the bomb-throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy, and taught us how we might destroy it.For sixty years, Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of “whiteness”—a social fiction and an unmitigated disaster for all working-class people. This new essay collection from the late firebrand covers the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • John Brown

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand." DuBois's biography ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Construction of Whiteness

    An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

    Edited by Stephen Middleton, David R. Roediger, Donald M. Shaffer ...
    A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2017This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine whiteness as a problem has rarely been grasped outside ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Joe Hill

    The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

    by Franklin Rosemont ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont’s opus ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seizing Freedom

    Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

    by David R. Roediger ...
    Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil WarHow did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts of Emancipation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD