Class, Race, and Marxism

Class, Race, and Marxism

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Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race–class relationship

Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical studies of the intersections of race, settler colonialism, and slavery, in his major essay (with Elizabeth Esch) on race and the management of labour, in his detailing of the origins of critical studies of whiteness within Marxism, and in his reflections on the history of solidarity, Roediger argues that racial division is part of not only of the history of capitalism but also of the logic of capital.

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  • David Roediger’s work is always as learned as it is profoundly engaged with the pursuit of social justice. From his signature study of The Wages of Whiteness, to the analysis of links between settler colonial dispossession, gendered social reproduction, plantation management, and immigrant labor in the making of modern racial capitalism – Roediger’s bold commitments to demonstrating the historical and ongoing imbrications of race and class in the United States are timely, and more necessary than ever.

    Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents
  • On Wages of Whiteness:

    The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies.

    SPIN
  • On Wages of Whiteness:



    An extremely important and insightful book.

    The Nation