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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 1600s 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 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 "nonwhite" nation in the next fifty years, this masterful account shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description

Introduction : thinking through race and class in hard times -- Part One. Interventions : making sense of race and class. The retreat from race and class -- Accounting for the wages of whiteness : US Marxism and the critical history of race -- A white intellectual among thinking Black intellectuals : George Rawick and the settings of genius -- Part Two. Histories : the past and present of race and class. Removing Indians, managing slaves, and justifying slavery : the case for intersectionality -- "One symptom of originality" : race and the management of labor in US history / (coauthored with Elizabeth Esch) -- Making solidarity uneasy : cautions on a keyword from Black Lives Matter to the past.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: race in the history of U.S. management -- Facing South -- The Antebellum South and the origins of race management : African slavery, Indian removal, and Irish labor -- Managing the Negro : the African slave as asset and animal -- Facing West -- Frontiers of control : infrastructure, western expansion, and race management -- Crossing borders : racial knowledge and the transnational triumphs of U.S. management -- Changing the whole story -- Continuity and change : scientific management, race management, and the persistence of the "foremen's empire" -- The crisis of race management : immigrant rebellions, immigration restrictions, and a new focus on Black and Mexican labor -- Afterword: then and now -- Notes -- Index

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 until now much of this writing has been ignored. Black on White reverses this trend by presenting the work of more than fifty major figures, including James Baldwin, Derrick Bell, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker to take a closer look at the many meanings of whiteness in our society.Rich in irony, artistry, passion, and common sense, these reflections on what Langston Hughes called "the ways of white folks" illustrate how whiteness as a racial identity derives its meaning not as a biological category but as a social construct designed to uphold racial inequality. Powerful and compelling, Black on White provides a much-needed perspective that is sure to have a major impact on the study of race and race relations in America.From the Trade Paperback edition.