David R. Roediger
Author · 13 books
David Roediger teaches history and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. He was born in southern Illinois and educated in public schools in that state, with a B.S. in Ed from Northern Illinois University. He completed a doctorate in History at Northwestern in 1979. Roediger has taught labor and Southern history at Northwestern, University of Missouri, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois. He has also worked as an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University. He has written on U.S. movements for a shorter working day, on labor and poetry, on the history of radicalism, and on the racial identities of white workers and of immigrants. The former chair of the editorial committee of the Charles H. Kerr Company, the world's oldest radical publisher, he has been active in the surrealist movement, labor support and anti-racist organizing.
Series
Books
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
1991
Black on White
Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
1998
Colored White
Transcending the Racial Past
2002
The Sinking Middle Class
A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right
2020
Class, Race, and Marxism
2017
Seizing Freedom
Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
2014
White
Whiteness And Race In Contemporary Art
2003
The Production of Difference
Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
2012
Joe Hill
The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
2003
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
2005
Our Own Time
A History of American Labor and the Working Day
1989
Towards the Abolition of Whitness
Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History
1994
How Race Survived US History
From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
2008
