Slavery

by Stephen Currie

Book Overview

It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to economic reform, Roediger wants to open, not close, debates on the privileges and miseries associated with being white. He closely examines the way in which white identities have historically prepared white Americans to accept the oppression of others, the emptiness of their own lives, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565108817
• ISBN13: 9781565108813
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Greenhaven Press
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9