David R Roediger
Biographic Data
| ID | 207407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Roediger |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Roediger |
| SIGNATURE | ROEDIGER D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Morrill Issues and Academic Liberalism
Morrill Issues and Academic Liberalism David R. Roediger (bio) it is a pleasure to write in brief response to this exciting and remarkable project of mapping, journalism, and political intervention. From 1985 until 2013 I taught entirely in land-grant universities: the University of Missouri, then Minnesota, and finally Illinois. Justin Smith Morrill's ghost roamed those grounds, roughly 150 years after the act bearing his name funded such colleg…
All about Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness
Richard Brookhiser’s “Three Cheers for the WASPs” fretted that liberty- and wealth-producing White Anglo-Saxon Protestants’ values were being elbowed aside as the “repressed” habits of an “ice person.” Toni Morrison’s reminder that race has often been brutally figured on a Black-white axis stuck out like a sore thumb in the special issue. Her telling warnings that immigrants have historically had to “buy into the notion of American blacks as the …
Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani--insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in…
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction continually creates jarring, provocative theoretical images, mixing race and class by design. Black reconstruction is, for Du Bois, the key to the story of ‘the US labor movement’. Du Bois regards the decision of workers to define themselves by their whiteness as understandable in terms of short-term advantages. The gradual transition to wage labor from 1800 to 1860 was an extremely serious matter for labor r…
Whiteness and Race
This article situates the growing literature on European immigration to the United States and white racial identity in the larger body of research on immigration history and in inspirations from literature and social theory. It places the new work, debates among those producing it, and critical responses to it within historiography and recent political debates. Differences over the utility of the idea that immigrants “became white” in the United …
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting The Global Colour Line
Comment on De Genova’s “Management of quality”: Race-thinking at the point of production
A White Intellectual among Thinking Black Intellectuals: George Rawick and the Settings of Genius
This essay places the emergence in the 1960s and 1970s of the historian and sociologist George Rawick as a leading student not only of race but also of class in the context of his coming into contact with African American social movements and with transnational black intellectuals. Working especially through C. L. R. James and the Facing Reality revolutionary tendency in Detroit and in London, Rawick abandoned the orthodox and vanguardist Marxism…
How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
How Race Survived US History explores how the idea of race was created and recreated in American history. From the late seventeenth century - the era in which Du Bois 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, David Roediger reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Ro…
The Irish and the "Americanization" of the "New Immigrants" in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930
Research Article| July 01 2005 The Irish and the "Americanization" of the "New Immigrants" in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930 James R. Barrett; James R. Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David R. Roediger David R. Roediger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 3–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501633 Cite Ico…
Colored WhiteTranscending the Racial Past: Transcending the Racial Past
This book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a “still white” nation. Issues of race are decidedly not a thing of the past. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book—Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani—insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in…
Critical Studies of Whiteness, USA: Origins and Arguments
The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860
David R. Roediger, The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, No. 4, Special Issue on Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic (Winter, 1999), pp. 579-600
Is There a Healthy White Personality
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 1. Racial Oppression and Social Control
Journal Article The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control. By Theodore W. Allen. New York: Verso and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History. By David R. Roediger. New York: Verso Get access William L. Van Deburg William L. Van Deburg University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ame…
Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History
Journal Article Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History. Ed. by Ronald C. Kent, Sara Markham, David R. Roediger, and Herbert Shapiro. (Westport: Greenwood, 1993. xvi, 215 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-28828-3.) Get access Daniel Letwin Daniel Letwin Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pa…
Towards the abolition of whiteness: Essays on race, politics, and working class history
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger's recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present in the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to economic reform, Roediger wants to open, not close, debates on the privileges and miseries associated wit…
The wages of whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class
Living for the Weekend: The Shorter Hours Movement in International Perspective
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Journal Article Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day. By David R. Roediger and Philip S. Foner. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 380 pp. $39.95.) Get access Benjamin Hunnicutt Benjamin Hunnicutt University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079233 Published: 01 September 1…
Covington Hall: The Poetry and Politics of Southern Nationalism and Labour Radicalism
Covington Hall: The Poetry and Politics of Southern Nationalism and Labour Radicalism Get access David R. Roediger David R. Roediger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1985, Pages 162–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/19.1.162 Published: 01 March 1985
One Hundred Years of Organized Labor in Illinois, 1881–1981
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Critical Studies of Whiteness, USA: Origins and Arguments
The wages of whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class
The Irish and the "Americanization" of the "New Immigrants" in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930
Research Article| July 01 2005 The Irish and the "Americanization" of the "New Immigrants" in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930 James R. Barrett; James R. Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David R. Roediger David R. Roediger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 3–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501633 Cite Ico…
The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860
David R. Roediger, The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, No. 4, Special Issue on Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic (Winter, 1999), pp. 579-600
Is There a Healthy White Personality
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Journal Article Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day. By David R. Roediger and Philip S. Foner. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 380 pp. $39.95.) Get access Benjamin Hunnicutt Benjamin Hunnicutt University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079233 Published: 01 September 1…
A White Intellectual among Thinking Black Intellectuals: George Rawick and the Settings of Genius
This essay places the emergence in the 1960s and 1970s of the historian and sociologist George Rawick as a leading student not only of race but also of class in the context of his coming into contact with African American social movements and with transnational black intellectuals. Working especially through C. L. R. James and the Facing Reality revolutionary tendency in Detroit and in London, Rawick abandoned the orthodox and vanguardist Marxism…
One Hundred Years of Organized Labor in Illinois, 1881–1981
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Covington Hall: The Poetry and Politics of Southern Nationalism and Labour Radicalism
Covington Hall: The Poetry and Politics of Southern Nationalism and Labour Radicalism Get access David R. Roediger David R. Roediger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1985, Pages 162–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/19.1.162 Published: 01 March 1985
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Journal Article Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day. By David R. Roediger and Philip S. Foner. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 380 pp. $39.95.) Get access Benjamin Hunnicutt Benjamin Hunnicutt University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079233 Published: 01 September 1…
The wages of whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class
Living for the Weekend: The Shorter Hours Movement in International Perspective
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History
Journal Article Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History. Ed. by Ronald C. Kent, Sara Markham, David R. Roediger, and Herbert Shapiro. (Westport: Greenwood, 1993. xvi, 215 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-28828-3.) Get access Daniel Letwin Daniel Letwin Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pa…
Towards the abolition of whiteness: Essays on race, politics, and working class history
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger's recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present in the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to economic reform, Roediger wants to open, not close, debates on the privileges and miseries associated wit…
The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 1. Racial Oppression and Social Control
Journal Article The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control. By Theodore W. Allen. New York: Verso and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History. By David R. Roediger. New York: Verso Get access William L. Van Deburg William L. Van Deburg University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ame…
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860
David R. Roediger, The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, No. 4, Special Issue on Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic (Winter, 1999), pp. 579-600
Is There a Healthy White Personality
Critical Studies of Whiteness, USA: Origins and Arguments
Colored WhiteTranscending the Racial Past: Transcending the Racial Past
This book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a “still white” nation. Issues of race are decidedly not a thing of the past. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book—Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani—insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in…
The Irish and the "Americanization" of the "New Immigrants" in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930
Research Article| July 01 2005 The Irish and the "Americanization" of the "New Immigrants" in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930 James R. Barrett; James R. Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David R. Roediger David R. Roediger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 3–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501633 Cite Ico…
How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
How Race Survived US History explores how the idea of race was created and recreated in American history. From the late seventeenth century - the era in which Du Bois 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, David Roediger reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Ro…
Comment on De Genova’s “Management of quality”: Race-thinking at the point of production
A White Intellectual among Thinking Black Intellectuals: George Rawick and the Settings of Genius
This essay places the emergence in the 1960s and 1970s of the historian and sociologist George Rawick as a leading student not only of race but also of class in the context of his coming into contact with African American social movements and with transnational black intellectuals. Working especially through C. L. R. James and the Facing Reality revolutionary tendency in Detroit and in London, Rawick abandoned the orthodox and vanguardist Marxism…
Whiteness and Race
This article situates the growing literature on European immigration to the United States and white racial identity in the larger body of research on immigration history and in inspirations from literature and social theory. It places the new work, debates among those producing it, and critical responses to it within historiography and recent political debates. Differences over the utility of the idea that immigrants “became white” in the United …
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting The Global Colour Line
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction continually creates jarring, provocative theoretical images, mixing race and class by design. Black reconstruction is, for Du Bois, the key to the story of ‘the US labor movement’. Du Bois regards the decision of workers to define themselves by their whiteness as understandable in terms of short-term advantages. The gradual transition to wage labor from 1800 to 1860 was an extremely serious matter for labor r…
Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani--insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in…
All about Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness
Richard Brookhiser’s “Three Cheers for the WASPs” fretted that liberty- and wealth-producing White Anglo-Saxon Protestants’ values were being elbowed aside as the “repressed” habits of an “ice person.” Toni Morrison’s reminder that race has often been brutally figured on a Black-white axis stuck out like a sore thumb in the special issue. Her telling warnings that immigrants have historically had to “buy into the notion of American blacks as the …
Morrill Issues and Academic Liberalism
Morrill Issues and Academic Liberalism David R. Roediger (bio) it is a pleasure to write in brief response to this exciting and remarkable project of mapping, journalism, and political intervention. From 1985 until 2013 I taught entirely in land-grant universities: the University of Missouri, then Minnesota, and finally Illinois. Justin Smith Morrill's ghost roamed those grounds, roughly 150 years after the act bearing his name funded such colleg…
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