Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2019
Summary
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 that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once view…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781541673472 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1541673476 |
| Author: | David Roediger |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 140mm x 30mm |
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“Provocative.”– Washington Post
“Working Toward Whiteness is a tour de force. This book will be the point-of-departure for future studies of ‘whiteness.’”–Rudolph J. Vecoli
“David Roediger has given us another of our most compelling, incisive, and elegant analyses of racial subjugation and privilege-in-the-making in the United Sates. Working Toward Whiteness is a brilliant investigation of that historical zone where institutions, ideas, and street-level experiences meet and give form to one another. It may be Roediger’s most powerful contribution yet. An exemplary work.”–Matthew Frye Jacobson, authorof Whiteness of a Different Color and RootsToo: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
“If race is real and not just a method for the haves to decide who will be have-nots, then all European immigrants, from Ireland to Greece would have been ‘white’ the moment they arrived here. Instead, as documented in David Roediger’s excellent Working Toward Whiteness, they were long considered inferior, nearly subhuman, and certainly not white.”–Mother Jones
“Provocative.”–Washington Post
About The Author
David Roediger
David R. Roediger is the Foundation Professor of American Studies at University of Kansas. The author of The Wages of Whiteness, among other books, he lives in Lawrence, KS.
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