How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
by David R. Roediger
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In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600's to the present day. From the late seventeenth century--the era in which DuBois located the emergence of "whiteness"--through the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War, to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in show more a progressive national history. Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migration and globalization. Exploring the evidence that the USA will become a majority "non-white" nation in the next fifty years, this masterful account shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century. show lessTags
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I found it frustrating that Roediger did not provide any endnotes or a bibliography with his book. It would have added credibility to his research as well as provide resources for further reading.
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David R. Roediger is the Foundation Professor of American Studies at University of Kansas. The author of The Wages of Whiteness, among other books, he lives in Lawrence, KS.
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- Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 305.800973 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups standard subdivisions / Ethnic and national groups with ethnic origins from more than one continent, of European descent standard subdivisions Biography And History North America United States
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- E184 .A1 .R642 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans
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