Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past Volume 10

by David R. Roediger

Book Overview

David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani--insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520240707
• ISBN13: 9780520240704
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"