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Title: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger ISBN: 1-85984-240-2 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Working Definition of Race
Comment: David Roediger examines the growth and social construction of racism as it was related to the working classes of the ninteenth century. His scholarship earned him the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Prize for US Social History in 1991. This work is brief, but dense in analysis, argument and scholarly interpretations.
The book basically explores how white workers (with an emphasis on Irish Americans) sought after a "wage" for their color, by placing on Black Americans the mantle of "other", objectifying and stratifying blacks into an object of prejudice and discrimination.
After a lengthy discussion of the historiography of labor and race issues, Roediger writes eloquently of the cultural formation of words such as slave, servant, hired hand, freeman, white slave, master and boss. All of which, he argues, were used to diferentiate between blacks and white laborers. He is careful to point out that it was the workers themselves who created the terms as a means to divide the races and elevate whites on the hierarchy of social status. It is a convincing arguement. The text concludes with an enlightening discussion of "black face" and the social struggles of the Irish, whom many felt in the majority viewed as "white negroes."
This book is scholarly and a read that demands one's attention.
Rating: 5
Summary: superb
Comment: This book challenges white male racism, proving once again that white males are racist not only when they are affluent, but when they are "working class", a term that bears some scrutiny, because even if a Black person recieves the same wages, they are of course subject to the horrors of racism. When *will* white males ever figure this out???
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent study of the social concept of race.
Comment: This book tackles the difficult subject of race relations among the working class of America. The time frame for this book is generally fom 1800 through the Civil war, as America was turning from an agricultural society to an industrial society. Slavery was drawing to a close, immigration had increased, and the urban populations of American cities were growing. All of these elements combined to create an urban working class complete with racial tension. Within this context, David R. Roediger defines the attitudes of race and race relation in a manner that is unique to most histories of urban studies. He not only records the developments of a racial identity, but he also examines the reasons why the white community defined itself as well as how the white community defined other groups. This book will probably stir a lot of controversy, but it will also answer many questions. Any historian or urban studies major can benefit form this book, but beyond college level readers, anyone interested in racial identities and racial differences can also appriciate this book.
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Title: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev ISBN: 0415918251 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz, George Lipstiz ISBN: 1566396352 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson ISBN: 0674951913 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White by David R. Roediger ISBN: 0805211144 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control (Vol 1 (Paper)) by Theodore W. Allen ISBN: 086091660X Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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