Research Catalog

Title

History against misery / David Roediger.

Author

Roediger, David.

Publication

Chicago, IL : Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 2006, c2005.

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Details

Description

xiv, 184 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"IN THIS LAVISHLY illustrated collection of activist essays, articles and reviews from the late 70s to the present, the noted author of The Wages of Whiteness, Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and other pathbreaking critical studies of America's "white problem" focuses on the complex issue of MISERABILISM in its many and invariably oppressive forms."--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• United States > Race relations
• United States > Social conditions
• Racism > United States
• Working class > United States
• Popular culture > United States
• White people > Race identity > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jaw breakers, Spuds MacKenzie and Fordism -- Waiting to inhale -- Assessment : the Secretary of Education's new clothes -- Radical culture without surrealism -- Sports, surrealism, subversion -- Sports for sale -- How racism becomes common sense : sports and media where we live -- Rush-ism, racism and colorblindness -- What means this strike in football -- Country tunes, Bush's blues -- A long journey to the hiphop nation -- Surrealist subversion in everyday life -- Poetry and working class history : Sterling Brown, for example -- C.L.R. James : all-rounder -- An interview with Elma Stuckey, poet Laureate of slave life -- Black freedom and the slave narrative : an interview with George Rawick -- André Breton : "What is surrealism?" -- Albert Parsons : the anarchist as trade unionist -- Covington Hall : the republic of the imagination -- Carry it on : Du Bois's "Black reconstruction" in the new millennium -- An injury to one : IWW organizing in the deep South -- The art of Penelope Rosemont : opposing the mediocrity of life with passion -- One hundred years young : Charles H. Kerr's birthday -- T-Bone Slim : a working class jokester -- The future of surrealism -- A Marxist argument for sloth -- Still Joe Hill -- Paul Garon's "Blues and the poetic spirit" -- Commitment to freedom : "Surrealist women" -- Site unseen : Central "Turnhalle", May Day and the movements of labor -- Emancipation : the biggest story in U.S. labor history -- May Day : made in America -- Seeing the future in the present : Robin D.G. Kelley's "Yo mama's disfunktional!" -- Critical studies of whiteness, USA : origins and arguments -- The best we've done so far : Alexander Saxton's "Rise and fall of the white republic" -- How old and new whiteness keep showing up, but not by themselves -- I came for the art : exposing whiteness and imagining nonwhite spaces -- After whiteness.

LCCN

9780882863054

OCLC

63210895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library