Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story of historian and radical writer, David Roediger. With wry wit and keen observation, Roediger chronicles his intellectual and political evolution.
Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story of historian and radical writer, David Roediger. With wry wit and keen observation, Roediger chronicles his intellectual and political evolution.
David Roediger is Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at University of Kansas. His books include The Wages of Whiteness (Verso, 1991), which won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and Class, Race and Marxism (Verso, 2017), which won the Working Class Studies Association's C.L.R. James Award.
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Preface: Becoming Fathomable ix 1 Born and Raised: Abandoned Cities and a Sundown Town 1 2 Saved 34 3 Higher Educated: Coming of Age on the Left 48 4 Schooled by the City and the Left 68 Interlude One: Brush with Genius-C. L. R. James 99 5 The Craft of History and the History Business 103 Interlude Two: Brush with Genius-Radicals and the Countryside 132 6 Present at the Unmaking: Critical Studies of Whiteness and Critical Race Theory 138 Interlude Three: Brush with Genius-Toni Morrison and Angela Davis 171 7 Caring for the Historically White Failed State University 178 Afterword: What Good Is Being Fathomable? 213 Further Reading 221 Photos follow page 118
Preface: Becoming Fathomable ix 1 Born and Raised: Abandoned Cities and a Sundown Town 1 2 Saved 34 3 Higher Educated: Coming of Age on the Left 48 4 Schooled by the City and the Left 68 Interlude One: Brush with Genius-C. L. R. James 99 5 The Craft of History and the History Business 103 Interlude Two: Brush with Genius-Radicals and the Countryside 132 6 Present at the Unmaking: Critical Studies of Whiteness and Critical Race Theory 138 Interlude Three: Brush with Genius-Toni Morrison and Angela Davis 171 7 Caring for the Historically White Failed State University 178 Afterword: What Good Is Being Fathomable? 213 Further Reading 221 Photos follow page 118
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