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The Making of an Antiracist and Anticapitalist
Manage episode 501026516 series 2457681
White working class people are frequently dismissed by liberals as intractably racist — the purported bedrock of reaction in this country. While the support of working class whites has never been sufficient to explain the rise of Donald Trump, it’s still worth asking what does it take to shift the politics of white workers brought up conservative and racist. Historian David Roediger’s life has been spent grappling with such questions; yet his life itself has also answered them, given his own trajectory from racist small-town working class life to one of the founders of critical whiteness studies.
David Roediger, An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education Fordham University Press, 2025
The post The Making of an Antiracist and Anticapitalist appeared first on KPFA.
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Manage episode 501026516 series 2457681
White working class people are frequently dismissed by liberals as intractably racist — the purported bedrock of reaction in this country. While the support of working class whites has never been sufficient to explain the rise of Donald Trump, it’s still worth asking what does it take to shift the politics of white workers brought up conservative and racist. Historian David Roediger’s life has been spent grappling with such questions; yet his life itself has also answered them, given his own trajectory from racist small-town working class life to one of the founders of critical whiteness studies.
David Roediger, An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education Fordham University Press, 2025
The post The Making of an Antiracist and Anticapitalist appeared first on KPFA.
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