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The Wages Of Whiteness: Race And The Making Of The American Working Class
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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 ele ....
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....ingling out of the defenseless for attack to a
chilling extreme” (page 109). From this quote, the white workers who
mobbed were opposed to giving aid to the innocent orphans. Thus, so far we
have seen that we have a white working class who are using all sorts of
riots in order to segregate themselves from blacks. We can conclude that
the majority of white workers were very concerned with the keeping a
boundary between black and white.
Blackface, a fragment of the antebellum era was character.... |
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