Product Description

In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600's to the present day. From the late seventeenth century - the era in which Du Bois located the emergence of 'whiteness' - through the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War, to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Suvived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migration and globalisation. Exploring the evidence that the USA will become a majority 'nonwhite' nation in the next fifty years, this masterful account shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #475235 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
A staggering re-interpretation of the whole course of American history in which the skeletons in the closet walk abroad again. From genocide to massacre to lynching to the coded tongue of liberalism, the bankruptcy of white supremacy is found in the racialized structures maintained by the enclosures of incarceration and the foreclosures of impignoration. Read it, Obama, and weep! --Peter Linebaugh, author of the Magna Carta Manifesto

About the Author
DAVID R. ROEDIGER is Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of, among other books, The Wages of Whiteness and Working Towards Whiteness.