The Wages Of Whiteness: Race And The Making Of The American Working Class
In The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American
Working Class by David Roediger, we are able to examine the antebellum era
with emphasis on class formation and the fluidity of racial boundaries in
popular culture. According to Roediger, mobbing, blackface and minstrelsy
are key elements in the formation of the white-working class.
During the antebellum time period, Blacks were victimized by the
white mobs. The African – American community as a whole endured tremendous
social injustice. The mobs wanted Blacks to be disassociated from the
citizen ....
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