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  1. Towards the abolition of whiteness : essays on race, politics, and working class history

    Roediger, David R.
    London ; New York : Verso, 1994.

    This collection of essays expands on themes and issues explored in the author's award-winning study, "The Wages of Whiteness". The book assumes a multi-disciplinary approach to consider modern white identity. Roediger offers reflections on how the history of white racism continues to have impact on political and social life today. He aims to move the discussion of racial identity to a new level of theoretical sophistication and historical precision. "The Wages of Whiteness" won the Merle Curti Prize for Social History in 1991.Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger's recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present in the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to economic reform, Roediger wants to open, not close, debates on the privileges and miseries associated with being white. He closely examines the way in which white identities have historically prepared white Americans to accept the oppression of others, the emptiness of their own lives, and the impossibility of change. Whether discussing popular culture, race and ethnicity, the evolution of such American keywords as gook, boss and redneck, the strikes of 1877 or the election of 1992, Roediger pushes at the boundaries between labor history and politics, as well as those between race and class, Alive to tension within what James Baldwin called 'the lie of whiteness', Roediger explores the record of dissent from white identity, especially in the cultural realm, and encourages the search for effective political challenges to whiteness.

  2. The slavery debates, 1952-1990 : a retrospective

    Fogel, Robert William
    Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2003.

  3. Racism and the denial of human rights : beyond ethnicity

    Minneapolis : MEP Publications, 1984.

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