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On Roediger's Wages of WhitenessAllen, Theodore, W. http://clogic.eserver.org/4-2/allen.htmlPublisher: eserver Date Written: 01/01/1991 Year Published: 2002 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX15820 An extended discussion and critique of David Roediger's book Wages of Whiteness. Allen writes: "David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, because of its almost universal acceptance for use in colleges and universities, has served as the single most effective instrument in the socially necessary consciousness-raising function of objectifying 'whiteness,' and in popularizing the 'race-as-a-social-construct' thesis. As one who has been the beneficiary of kind supportive comments from him for my own efforts in this field of historical investigation, I undertake this critical essay with no other purpose than furthering the our common aim of the disestablishment of white identity, and the overthrow of white supremacism in general." Subject Headings |