# Working Toward Whiteness

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- Book: [Working Toward Whiteness](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-roediger/working-toward-whiteness) ([Working Toward Whiteness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-roediger/working-toward-whiteness.md))
- Authors: [David Roediger](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-roediger)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- ISBN: 978-04-6507-074-9
- Published: 2006-08-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

At the vanguard of the study of race and labour in American history, David R. Roediger is the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness , a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness , he continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how American ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. They eventually became part of white America thanks to the nascent labour movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants- the racist real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighbourhoods- Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. A masterful history by an award-winning writer, Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the " white ethnics" of America today.