Table of Contents

Acknowledgments One: Still White 1. All about Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness 2. Smear Campaign: Giuliani, the Holy Virgin Mary, and the Critical Study of Whiteness 3. White Looks and Limbaugh's Laugh 4. White Workers, New Democrats, and Affirmative Action 5. "Hertz, Don't It?" White "Colorblindness" and the Mark(et)ings of O.J. Simpson (with Leola Johnson) Two: Toward Nonwhite Histories 6. Nonwhite Radicalism: Du Bois, John Brown, and Black Resistance 7. White Slavery, Abolition, and Coalition: Languages of Race, Class, and Gender 8. The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790--1860 9. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the "New-Immigrant" Working Class (with James Barrett) 10. Plotting against Eurocentrism: The 1929 Surrealist Map of the World Three: The Past/Presence of Nonwhiteness 11. What If Labor Were Not White and Male? 12. Mumia Time or Sweeney Time? 13. In Conclusion: Elvis, Wiggers, and Crossing Over to Nonwhiteness Notes Credits Index

About the Author

David R. Roediger is Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, & Working Class History (1994), The Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class (1991) and Our Own Time: A History of American Labor & the Working Day (1989) and editor of Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998).

Reviews

"Roediger's third collection of essays in just over a decade, and his most wide-ranging. It is hard to imagine another academic today who has more to say about more subjects, a point confirmed by this latest pastiche of cultural criticism, labor history, and political exhortation."--"New Republic