Evolution of Whiteness
E-Books
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Growing up Jim Crow
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Exploring relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette, and racial violence, Growing Up Jim Crow sheds new light on tradition and change in the South and the meanings of segregation within southern culture.
Print Books
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Making Whiteness
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Making Whiteness explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled — and distorting — component of twentieth-century American identity. -
The Wages of Whiteness
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Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. -
Worked to the Bone
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Worked to the Bone is a provocative examination of race and class in the United States and the mechanics of inequality. In an elegant and accessible style that combines thoroughly documented sociological insight with her own compelling personal narrative, Pem Buck illustrates the ways in which constructions of race and the promise of white privilege have been used at specific historical moments to divide those in the United States. -
Working Toward Whiteness
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Working Toward Whiteness recounts how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country.
