Sinking Middle Class
- 264 pages
- 10 hours of reading
A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
David Roediger is a distinguished historian whose scholarship delves into African American studies and the intricate tapestry of American history. His work critically examines deeply rooted racial identities and immigrant experiences, often focusing on the perspectives of white laborers. Roediger's approach is marked by a keen analysis of labor history and radicalism, drawing connections between seemingly disparate fields like poetry and surrealism. Through his extensive research, he offers profound insights into the formation of American society and its complex racial and class dynamics.
A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labour
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race-class relationship
How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship
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.
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