Bibliograph

The wages of whiteness, race and the making of the American working class, David R. Roediger

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The wages of whiteness, race and the making of the American working class, David R. Roediger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The wages of whiteness

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

40758026

Responsibility statement

David R. Roediger

Series statement

The Haymarket series

Sub title

race and the making of the American working class

Table Of Contents

Introducing the white worker. On autobiography and theory: an introduction ; The prehistory of the white worker: settler colonialism, race and republicanism before 1800 -- Race and the languages of class from the Revolution to the Civil War. 'Neither a servant nor a master am I': keywords in the languages of white labor republicanism ; White slaves, wage slaves and free white labor -- Work, culture and whiteness in industrializing America. Class, coons and crowds in antebellum America ; White skins, black masks: minstrelsy and white working class formation before the Civil War ; Irish-American workers and white racial formation in the antebellum United States -- The limits of emancipation and the fate of working class whiteness. Epilogue: a new life and old habits

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