The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
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The Pequod Review:
David Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness is a persuasive account of the working class's complicity in creating and amplifying feelings of “white supremacy” in order to enjoy the psychological “wage” of racial superiority. This thesis is a highly relevant counter-argument to the simplistic What’s the Matter with Kansas?-type analyses.