Class, Race and Marxism
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786631237 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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In his historical studies of the intersections of race, settler colonialism, and slavery, in his major essay (with Elizabeth Esch) on race and the management of labour, in his detailing of the origins of critical studies of whiteness within Marxism, and in his reflections on the history of solidarity, Roediger argues that racial division is not only part of the history of capitalism but also of the logic of capital.. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationshipSeen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity
. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. David Roediger is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Kansas University. Foner), How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of th
From his signature study of the ‘wages of whiteness,’ to the analysis of links between settler colonial dispossession, gendered social reproduction, plantation management, and immigrant labor in the making of modern racial capitalism—Roediger’s bold commitments to demonstrating the historical and ongoing imbrications of race and class in the United States are timely, and more necessary than ever.”−Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents. “David Roediger’s work is always as learned as it is profoundly engaged with the pursuit of social justic