Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the new labor history pioneered by E.P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white ...
Organized by content/research area, this text offers complete coverage of core topics in experimental psychology, including experimentation, small-n experimentation, observation and measurement. The book begins with the basics of scientific investigation, including the philosophy of science, and the authors build on this foundation throughout the ...
This fascinating new book by an award-winning historian of race and labour tells the definitive story of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America At the vanguard of the study of race and labour in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of ...
An anthology of folktales, slave narratives, fiction, and essays on white people by over 50 black writers such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Amiri Baraka, W. E. B. DuBois, and others.
UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH, Ninth Edition, takes an example-based approach to the fundamentals of research methodology. Organized by topic--such as research in human factors, learning, thinking, and problem solving--the text helps you connect the concepts of sound methodology with their practical applications. Because the authors use dozens ...
David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book - Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani - ...
This fascinating new book by an award-winning historian of race and labour tells the definitive story of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America. At the vanguard of the study of race and labour in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of ...
Kantowitz, Roediger, and Elmes, all prominent researchers, take an example-based approach to the fundamentals of research methodology. Their text is organized by topic -- such as research in human factors, learning, thinking, and problem solving -- a unique feature that helps students connect the concepts of sound methodology with their ...
This third annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2006 and 2007, provides a quick and comprehensive overview of the top work and the current intellectual trends in the field of American history. With contributions from a diverse group of historians, ...
Our Own Time retells the history of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central issue for the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of activity, uniting workers along lines of craft, gender and ethnicity. The ...
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger's recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present in the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to ...
Provides coverage of research methods including experimentation, small-n experimentation, observation and measurement through a research methods approach (as opposed to a research topics approach). The text includes content examples blended into each discussion.
Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called "an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom". This collection of essays focuses on the central role of slavery in the early development of industrialization in the United States as well as on the interconnections among the ...
"How Race Survived US History" explores how the idea of race was created and recreated in American history. From the late seventeenth century - the era in which Du Bois located the emergence of "whiteness" - through the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War, to the civil-rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, David ...
Each chapter of the study guide contains the following useful resources: chapter outline; key terms matching section; Programmed Review section, consisting of a narrative summary of the chapter with fill-in-the-blank items; Experimental Project section, providing students with the opportunity to apply chapter concepts to a research project; ...
This is the new, fully updated edition of this now-classic study of working-class racism. Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, ...
'A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately 'unmeltable' ethics'. It's a startling point of view for readers who are accustomed to the self-congratulatory myth of America as a beacon of liberty to which the 'huddled masses' of the world look with longing' - Jonathan Kirsch, "Los Angeles ...
In the half-century since it was written, Hall's Labor Struggles In The Deep South, published here for the first time, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall - journalist, organizer, rebel, professor and poet - brings to life the dramatic early 20th century struggles of the ...
This topically organized text discusses methods within the context of basic psychological concepts. Part one provides an overview and general background of research methods. Each chapter in part two opens with a brief overview of the content area (e.g., Remembering and Forgetting), followed by a discussion of relevant research methods and issues. ...
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
