David Roediger

David Roediger teaches American Studies at University of Kansas. His The Sinking Middle Class appears from OR Books in October.

Racism and Capitalism in St. Louis

A new history of St. Louis shows it again as a national microcosm, though not in flattering ways....

POLITICS

HISTORY

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....

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

POLITICS

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.”...

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

POLITICS

CULTURAL STUDIES