David R. Roediger

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

This study the formative years of working-class racism in the United States discusses whiteness and the changing face of labour. The author surveys criticisms of his work, accepting many such criticisms while challenging others, especially the view that t

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a clas

John Brown

With scholarship and passion, Du Bois understands and explains John Brown.

Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contempora

How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon

In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600’s to the present day. From the late seventeenth century—the era in which DuBois located the emergenc