The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
“At last an American labor historian realizes that white workers have a racial identity that matters as race matters to workers who are not white.”—Nell Irwin Painter, Princeton University“A timely and important intervention in the current debates over ‘race’ and ethnicity.”—Catherine Hall,New Left Review“Roediger’s exciting new book makes us understand what it means to see oneself as white in a new way. An extremely important and insightful book.”—Lawrence Glickman,The Nation“The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies.”—SPLN