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Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History

Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History

Roediger, David R.

Paperback

Series: Haymarket

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0860916588
ISBN13: 9780860916581
Publisher: Verso
Published: Mar 17 1994
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.17
Language: English
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger's recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present of the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to economic reform, Roediger wants to open, not close, debates on the privileges and miseries associated with being white. He closely examines the way in which white identities have historically prepared white Americans to accept the oppression of others, the emptiness of their own lives, and the impossibility of change.

Whether discussing popular culture, race and ethnicity, the evolution of such American keywords as gook, boss and redneck, the strikes of 1877 or the election of 1992, Roediger pushes at the boundaries between labor history and politics, as well as those between race and class. Alive to tension within what James Baldwin called the lie of whiteness, Roediger explores the record of dissent from white identity, especially in the cultural realm, and encourages the search for effective political challenges to whiteness.

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