Colored White : transcending the racial past / David R. Roediger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roediger, David R.

Contributor:

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Series:

American crossroads ; 10.

American crossroads ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States.

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

White people--Race identity.

Minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Social conditions.

White supremacy movements--United States.

White supremacy movements.

Minorities--Political activity--United States.

Minorities--Political activity.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 323 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Colored White is a strong, jargon-free polemic that urges us to understand race as a formative part of American history. Roediger examines figures ranging from W.E.B. DuBois to Rush Limbaugh to show how we must understand race historically. He shows that racism is not merely a matter of demographics: it is political, and must be fought politically.

Contents:

1. All about Eve, critical white studies, and getting over whiteness

2. Smear campaign : Guiliani, the Holy Virgin mary, and the critical study of whiteness

3. White looks and Limbaugh's laugh

4. White workers, new Democrats, and affirmative action

5. "Hertz, don't it?" white "colorblindness" and the mark(et)ings of O.J. Simpson / (with Leola Johnson

6. Nonwhite radicalism : Du Bois, John Brown, and Black resistance

7. White slavery, abolition, and coalition : languages of race, class, and gender

The pursuit of whiteness : property, terror, and national expansion, 1790-1860

9. Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "New-immigrant" working class / (with James Barrett)

10. Plotting against Eurocentrism : the 1929 surrealist map of the world

11. What if labor were not white and male?

12. Mumia time or Sweeney time?

13. In conclusion : Elvis, Wiggers, and crossing over to nonwhiteness.

Notes:

"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-314) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Roediger, David R. Colored White.

ISBN:

9780520930803

0520930800

0585468532

9780585468532

1597345512

9781597345514

1282357395

9781282357396

0520240707

9780520240704

Publisher Number:

99976896732

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.