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How Race Survived US History

How Race Survived US History From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 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.

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Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

Book information

ISBN: 9781844674343
Publisher: Verso US
Imprint: Verso
Pub date:
DEWEY: 323.1196073 22
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 254
Weight: 300g
Height: 196mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 20mm