How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American h

'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these

'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national c

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in t