{"product_id":"towards-the-abolition-of-whiteness-essays-on-race-politics-and-working-class-history-9780860916581","title":"Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History","description":"\u003ci\u003eTowards the Abolition of Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Roediger\u003c\/b\u003e is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), \u003ci\u003eHow Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eFellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson, The North and Slavery and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White\u003c\/i\u003e as well as a new edition of Covington Hall's \u003ci\u003eLabor Struggles in the Deep South\u003c\/i\u003e. His articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review, Against the Current, Radical History Review, History Workshop Journal, The Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTennis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330091880722,"sku":"9780860916581","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dcf83c65-b1ac-499b-acac-5b1daf4227c8.jpg?v=1727791208","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/towards-the-abolition-of-whiteness-essays-on-race-politics-and-working-class-history-9780860916581","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}