The Wages Of Whiteness: Race And The Making Of The American Working Class
Beginning of paper
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 ....
Middle of paper
.... The quote expresses in a
basic sense; whites were not to mix with blacks. Associating with Blacks
was considered inappropriate, and the whites had to protect themselves from
Blacks. Clearly, we can acknowledge of hatred towards Blacks. In Columbia,
Pennsylvania 1834, skilled workers went on riots hysterically fueled by the
threat of inter-racial sex. Again, we see that society did not
want Blacks to mix with white. This was more emphasized with white women
mixing with black men, because ....
------------------
Word count: 1009
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
