Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to …

- David Roediger

The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly…

- David Roediger

For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander S…

- David Roediger

In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently…

- David Roediger

The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of …

- David Roediger

The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing sc…

- David Roediger

As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S…

- David Roediger

Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study bega…

- David Roediger