David Roediger est un historien éminent dont les recherches approfondissent les études afro-américaines et la trame complexe de l'histoire américaine. Son travail examine de manière critique les identités raciales profondément enracinées et les expériences des immigrants, se concentrant souvent sur les perspectives des travailleurs blancs. L'approche de Roediger se caractérise par une analyse pointue de l'histoire du travail et du radicalisme, établissant des liens entre des domaines apparemment disparates tels que la poésie et le surréalisme. À travers ses recherches approfondies, il offre des perspectives profondes sur la formation de la société américaine et ses dynamiques raciales et de classe complexes.
Argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. This book presents an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as WEB Du Bois and John Brown. schovat popis
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the labor history pioneered by E P Thompson and Herbert Gutman, this book provides a study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. It surveys scholarship on whiteness, and discusses the changing face of labor in the twenty-first century.
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labour
How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?
A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race-class relationship