Author: Roediger, David R.
Title: Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.boards. 24x15cm, ix,323 pp. 2pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Still White: All about Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness; Smear Campaign: Giuliani, the Holy Virgin Mary, and the Critical Study of Whiteness; White Looks and Limbaugh's Laugh; White Workers, New Democrats, and Affirmative Action; "Hertz, Don't It?" White " Colorblindness" and the Mark(et)ings of O. J. Simpson; Toward Nonwhite Histories: Nonwhite Radicalism: Du Bois, John Brown, and Black Resistance; White Slavery, Abolition, and Coalition: Languages of Race, Class, and Gender; The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and National Expansion,1790-I860; Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality,and the "New-Immigrant" Working Class; Plotting against Eurocentrism: The 1929 Surrealist Map of the World; The Past / Presence of Nonwhiteness: What If Labor Were Not White and Male? Mumia Time or Sweeney Time?; In Conclusion: Elvis, Wiggers,and Crossing Over to Nonwhiteness ["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 historical context. Roediger illuminates that history in an incisive critique of the current scholarship on whiteness and an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as W.E.B. Du Bois and John Brown..

Keywords: American Social History, African American, Black Blacks, Minority Minorities, United States, Political Politics, Race Racism, White Supremacy, Civil Rights