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Read Online and Download How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-racialism by David R. Roediger. An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and laborThe Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture. Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whitenessâ€â€”through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.
The book is insightful and well written. I would recommend it to anyone interested in race relations in the United States.
One reviewer called this "well researched" - I'd like to know how in the world they would know since there is neither a footnote nor a bibliographical reference. For example, we are told of a comment by W. E. B. Du Boise "writing during WWI" - and Roediger calls Du Bois an "unsurpassed U.S. Historian" - but of course an historian cites their work, and Roediger doesn't bother with a title or source for DuBois. (And even those of us who regard Du Bois as one of the great minds in American history would hesitate such meaningless hyperbole as "unsurpassed" when addressing DuBois as an historian, especially as there is considerable question about the citations or failure to do so in what is generally regarded as his greatest historical work, Black Reconstruction.Unfortunate - I agree with - or want to agree with -Roediger on so many points in this. His conclusions match what I've come across in my own research and I've picked up ideas from his work that I'll pursue. But it is lazy self-indulgence to leave out the sources. This is simply bad scholarship and however we may want to agree with Roediger's argument it is unsupported except with the occasional reference to so and so's "fine work", but even this is often without a title. Oscar Handlin wrote an awful lot, so did Du Bois and Ida Wells - just using their names is not adequate. It's the sort of work where one has to wonder if he didn't start with a conclusion and simply pick quotes from various sources to support his argument without really testing his ideas.I realize this may seem a minor point to some, and if Roediger was not an historian and if this book was not being sold as a work of history I would just chalk it up to more sloppy work by journalists dabbling in history, social scientists, etc and publishers feeding a market. But this is presented as history. Footnotes may not be necessary in a brief survey like this, but the exact sources used chapter by chapter and page by page should at least appear at the end.
This is not an easy read but it is an important one. The author persuasively makes his case that race and racism have affected this country in many many different ways. It has permeated our way of life from the beginning and continues to do so.Although Obama is mentioned in the subtitle, he is only discussed in the afterword so this is not a book about him. The focus of the book is an exploration of how race and racism affected the decisions that were made throughout U.S. history by elected officials at the federal, state & local levels, politicians running for office, unions, corporations, realtors, school officials, and others. Even decisions that appear to have nothing to do with race often end up perpetuating inequality, some accidentally, some on purpose. As the author writes, "The world got along without race for the overwhelming majority of its history. The U.S. has never been without it." The assumption of white supremacy enabled the founders to institutionalize racism in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and to enslave African peoples and attempt to eliminate Native Americans through murder or enslavement ( South Carolina exported more enslaved Indians up to 1715 than it imported enslaved Africans).Europeans traditionally had identified themselves by their nationality, not skin color. It wasn't until the U.S. was colonized and faced joint rebellions by slaves & European indentured servants that it was felt necessary to have a system to easily identify the not-free. Skin color became a decisive factor that could mean freedom or enslavement, life or death. Each new immigrant wave was distrusted and disparaged and were considered initially to be less than white (unless they were German, Scandinavian, or English). However, the new immigrants were encouraged to distinguish themselves from the menial class of slaves, free blacks, Native Americans, Chinese or Japanese (all of whom faced severe discrimination and violence) and were eventually assimilated as white. They were encouraged to consider moving west to help settle the country by receiving free land (something people of color were not allowed to do). The move from feudalism to capitalism introduced a new ideology that exalted wealth and invited every white man (women, of course, had no rights) to dream of rising above the station he was born into. Taking advantage of all opportunities was not only "white" but it was also "manly" and thus the psyche of white male settlers became invested in expanding their property, rights, and privileges to the detriment of all others. The expansion of capitalism in the U.S. was rooted in slavery and, after slavery ended, in always pitting one group against another so that the workers would work for less & less money and in worse and worse conditions. Thus did the owners make their filthy money.The insurance industry was born, in part, out of the need to "share the risk" of owning slaveships. Just before the civil war, cotton consisted of almost 60% of all exports for the nation and Northern bankers, factory owners, and politicians were all invested in the continuation of that product even conceding the necessity of slavery to bring it to market.It was news to me that the French sold the Louisiana Purchase to the U.S. because they badly needed cash after fighting the Haitians who were demanding freedom from their enslavement. To white Americans, this meant they were free to take over the land from the Native Americans and spread slavery further west.After the Civil War, it was common for commercial companies to have "race managers: to oversee the black and Asian workers. These "race managers" had detailed theories and lists of which races were good and bad at what task. Proponents of that system included Andrew Carnegie and Herbert Hoover. So eager were white workers to distance themselves from black workers that they even took pains to dress differently. Previously most men working outside would wear brimmed hats because of the sun but then white workers decided brimless hats were necessary and thus their necks got sunburned and the workers became "rednecks".For instance, after WWII there was a concerted effort by the U.S. government to help returning soldiers by subsidizing their return to college and their ability to buy homes through FHA. Sounds good, right? However, because of exclusionary policies in colleges (especially in the South where most black people lived in the 40s) and because of residential segregation and redlining, these benefits rarely included soldiers of color. Their exclusion from higher education and the loss of the ability to buy a home affected their children dramatically since housing is the most common form of inherited wealth and since the education level of the parents dramatically affects life-long income and their ability to provide for their children. In 1998 the net worth of African American and Hispanic American families was still only 17.28% of white families!
An excellent book. It historicizes whiteness as the social construct that it's always been. The book also illustrates the way the racist right has colluded with the complacent centrist majority to destroy those few tentative moves toward a less racist society that the left has made. An admirable book, perhaps best read with C. Van Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me. Between the World and Me
In the course of any action, there has to be a reason. Roediger says the wealthy in England and the American colonies created the idea of white supremacy as the reason for slavery and taking the Indians' land away from them. He shows how that creation of white supremacy has not only persisted to this day but has been nurtured by United States law and culture for political and economic reasons. It is thoroughly depressing. The book's major fault is its lengthy, serpentine sentences, some of which clearly got away from the editors as well as the author. Its strength is negotiating 400 years of racial history in what is now the United States in 230 pages. Roediger wears leftist politics on his sleeve which will prevent some from reading this, and will have others arguing with it at every paragraph. But his politics do not detract from and even service a concise, gimlet-eyed view of the flow of U.S. history regarding race relations. Roediger concludes that the idea of white supremacy dreamed up centuries ago by entitled Englishmen to justify their brutality is so entwined and supported by current powerful economic and political interests that it will not go away for hundreds of years unless it is aggressively fought. In the age of Obama, this challenges conventional wisdom, just as the book challenges conventional U.S. histories.
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