Paperback, 195 pages
English language
Published July 23, 2007 by Verso.
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class, Revised and Expanded Edition
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Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
Subjects
- Ethnography
- Racism & racial discrimination
- Social classes
- Work & labour
- Social Science
- History - U.S.
- Sociology
- USA
- Economic History
- Minority Studies - Race Relations
- United States - 19th Century
- Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Discrimination & Racism
- Economic Conditions
- Labor & Industrial Relations - General