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Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
David R. Roediger
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Description for Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
Paperback. Argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. This book presents an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as WEB Du Bois and John Brown. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 332 pages, 2 color illustrations, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book - Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani - insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in historical context. Roediger illuminates that history in an incisive critique of the current scholarship on whiteness and an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as W.E.B. ... Read more
David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book - Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani - insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in historical context. Roediger illuminates that history in an incisive critique of the current scholarship on whiteness and an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as W.E.B. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
American Crossroads
Condition
New
Weight
475 g
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520240704
SKU
V9780520240704
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About David R. Roediger
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 ... Read more
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