Publication

1991 - Verso, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

47,750 words, Guess

Page Count

191 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number91018855
  • Goodreads1520120
  • LibraryThing1177109

Classifications

  • DDC305.8/00973
  • LCCHD4903.5.U58 R64 1991

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Haymarket series

Other Editions

  • The wages of whiteness: race and the making of the American working classVerso1991-01-01

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