Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white?… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic"… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
