The wages of whiteness: race and the making of the American working class

Roediger, David R.

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The wages of whiteness: race and the making of the American working class

Roediger, David R. 2007 © Verso

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American: General & Multiperiod

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Frontmatter

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Acknowledgements (page vii)

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Preface to the Third Edition (page ix)

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Introduction (Kathleen Cleaver, page xix)

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PART I Introducing the White Worker

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1 On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction (page 3)

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2 The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 1800 (page 19)

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PART II Race and the Languages of Class from the Revolution to the Civil War

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3 'Neither a Servant Nor a Master Am I': Keywords in the Languages of White Labor Republicanism (page 43)

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4 White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor (page 65)

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PART III Work, Culture and Whiteness in Industrializing America

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5 Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America (page 95)

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6 White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War (page 115)

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7 Irish‐American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States (page 133)

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PART IV The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness

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8 Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits (page 167)

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Selected Writings (page 185)

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Index (page 189)

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Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
JSAS	20.4 (Dec. 1994): 663-669	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0305-7070%28199412%2920%3A4%3C663%3ALFATWO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
JIH	24.2 (Autumn 1993): 378-380	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199323%2924%3A2%3C378%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
CS	22.2 (Mar. 1993): 177-178	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199303%2922%3A2%3C177%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
JAH	79.3 (Dec. 1992): 1120-1121	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199212%2979%3A3%3C1120%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
AHR	97.4 (Oct. 1992): 1280-1281	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199210%2997%3A4%3C1280%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B

The wages of whiteness: race and the making of the American working class

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