How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor

The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture.

Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.
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How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor

The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture.

Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.
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How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism

How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism

by David R. Roediger
How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism

How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism

by David R. Roediger

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An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor

The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture.

Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.

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ISBN-13: 9781788737029
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 10/08/2019
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 824 KB

About the Author

David R. Roediger is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of, among other books, The Wages of Whiteness and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

1 Suddenly White Supremacy: How Race Took Hold 1

2 Slavery's Shadow, Empire's Edge: How White Supremacy Survived Declarations of Independence 30

3 Managing to Continue: How Race Survived Capitalism and Free Labor 64

4 The Ends of Emancipation: How Race Survived Jubilee 99

5 A Nation Stays White: How Race Survived Mass Immigration 136

6 Colorblind Inequalities: How Race Survived Modern Liberalism 169

Afterword: How Race Survived Post-racialism 212

Sources, Inspirations and Suggested Further Reading 239

Index 253

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