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

Title: Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
Author: David R Roediger
I: 1709566
ISBN: 0860915506
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st ed
Number of Pages: 200
Section: History | General
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.