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Class Race And Marxism
Hardback Edition: 1
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume
collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical studies of the intersections of race, settler colonialism, and slavery, in his major essay (with Elizabeth Esch) on race and the management of labour, in his detailing of the origins of critical studies of whiteness within Marxism, and in his reflections on the history of solidarity, Roediger argues that racial division is not only part of the history of capitalism but also of the logic of capital.
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Pages : 198
Publisher : Verso Books
Publication date : 2017-07-04
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Sociology, Philosophy Of Mind, Social Classes