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  • The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists

    by Voltairine de Cleyre ...
    Series series Working Classics
    Back in print for the first time in decades. A classic in US labor history.On May 1, 1886, Albert and Lucy Parsons led upwards of 80,000 striking workers and their supporters through the streets of Chicago. Across the country workers were advocating for the eight-hour day. On May 3, police killed two striking workers on the west side of Chicago. In response, a rally was called for May 4, 1886, at ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Seizing Freedom

    Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

    by David R. Roediger ...
    Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil WarHow did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts of Emancipation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Production of Difference

    Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

    by David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch ...
    In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a radically new way of understanding the history of management in the United States, placing race, migration, and empire at the center of what has ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Black on White

    Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

    by David R. Roediger ...
    In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How Race Survived US History

    From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism

    by David R. Roediger ...
    An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and laborThe Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture.Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Popular Wobbly

    Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim

    by T-Bone Slim ...
    The first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great DepressionThe Popular Wobbly brings together a wide selection of writings by T-Bone Slim, the most popular and talented writer belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Slim wrote humorous, polemical pieces, engaging with topics like labor ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • John Brown

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand." DuBois's biography ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Construction of Whiteness

    An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

    Edited by Stephen Middleton, David R. Roediger, Donald M. Shaffer ...
    A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2017This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine whiteness as a problem has rarely been grasped outside ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity

    by Noel Ignatiev ...
    A new collection of essays from the bomb-throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy, and taught us how we might destroy it.For sixty years, Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of “whiteness”—a social fiction and an unmitigated disaster for all working-class people. This new essay collection from the late firebrand covers the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Race and the Early Republic

    Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic

    by David Brion Davis, Jon Gjerde, Lois E. Horton, Joanne Pope Melish, Daniel K. Richter, David R. Roediger, James P. Ronda, Lacy K. Ford ...
    By 1840, American politics was a paradox-unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the 'white republic.' Race and the Early Republic offers a rich account of how this paradox evolved, beginning with the fledgling nation of the 1770s ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Slavery in the North

    Edited by Martin H. Blatt, David R. Roediger ...
    Series series Labor in America
    Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called "an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom." This collection of essays focuses on the central role of slavery in the early development of industrialization in the United States as well as on the interconnections among the histories of African Americans, women, and labor. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD