KPFA - Against the Grain

The Making of an Antiracist and Anticapitalist


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White working class people are frequently dismissed by liberals as intractably racist — the purported bedrock of reaction in this country. While the support of working class whites has never been sufficient to explain the rise of Donald Trump, it’s still worth asking what does it take to shift the politics of white workers brought up conservative and racist. Historian David Roediger’s life has been spent grappling with such questions; yet his life itself has also answered them, given his own trajectory from racist small-town working class life to one of the founders of critical whiteness studies.

David Roediger, An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education Fordham University Press, 2025

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