Title: Towards the abolition of whiteness : essays on race, politics, and working class history /
Authors: Roediger, David R.
Publisher: Verso,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Working class United States Historiography.; Racism United States Historiography.; Gook (The English word); United States Social conditions.
Contents: Introduction: From the Social Construction of Race to the Abolition of Whiteness -- pt. I. The New Labor History and Race. 1. 'Labor in White Skin': Race and Working Class History. 2. The Greatness of Herbert Gutman. 3. Precapitalism in One Confederacy: A Note on Genovese, Politics and the Slave South. 4. Where Communism Was Black. 5. Notes on Working Class Racism. 6. The Crisis in Labor History: Race, Gender and the Replotting of the Working Class Past in the United States -- pt. II. Studies in Whiteness and the Replotting of US History. 7. 'The So-Called Mob': Race, Class, Skill and Community in the St Louis General Strike. 8. Gook: The Short History of an Americanism. 9. The Racial Crisis of American Liberalism. 10. Gaining a Hearing for Black-White Unity: Covington Hall and the Complexities of Race, Gender and Class. 11. Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States.