An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor
David R. Roediger is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Kansas University. Among his books are Our Own Time (with Philip S. Foner) and The Wages of Whiteness.
In a trenchant, broad-ranging analysis, the leading US historian of
racism, David Roediger, demonstrates white supremacy's incredible
staying power against major societal forces that should long ago
have dismantled it. Not capitalism, not emancipation, not labor
movements, not mass immigration, not the civil rights movement, not
colorblind liberalism, and not the Barack Obama presidential
campaign-not one of these forces separately, and not all of them
together-have been able to destroy the deep structures of white
racism in the United States.
*Joe R. Feagin*
David Roediger's bold and brilliant book presents an extraordinary
new framework for understanding the persistence of racism in the
history of the United States. This book is a wake-up call and a
warning, an appeal for understanding and action. It offers a clear
and convincing demonstration that white supremacy is not merely a
relic of the past but rather a perpetually renewed and infinitely
renewable resource for inequality and injustice in the present.
*George Lipsitz*
A staggering re-interpretation of the whole course of American
history in which the skeletons in the closet walk again. From
genocide and massacre to lynching to the coded tongue of
liberalism, the bankruptcy of white supremacy is found in the
racialized structures maintained by the enclosures of incarceration
and the foreclosures of impignoration. Read it, Obama, and
weep!
*Peter Linebaugh*
Sometime in the US of the past quarter-century, calling policies
and the people who dream them up racist became a worse offense than
for them to be racist. This inversion, always dressed in
self-righteous indignation, is actually part of the social
evolution of white supremacy. David Roediger's new book details in
sharp and readable prose how race survived US history. It is a
must-read for all who strive to understand-and abolish-what
underlies the strangely strident rhetoric enveloping everything
from presidential contests to prison expansion.
*Ruth Wilson Gilmore*
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