David Roediger teaches American Studies at University of Kansas. His The Sinking Middle Class appears from OR Books in October.
David Roediger
Articles
Racism and Capitalism in St. Louis
A new history of St. Louis shows it again as a national microcosm, though not in flattering ways.
On the Defensive: Navigating White Advantage and White Fragility
"White Fragility" reads as one-part jeremiad and one-part handbook. It is by turns mordant and then inspirational.
Who’s Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams’s “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America”
David Roediger on “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America.”
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