3.5
How Race Survived US History
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An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor
The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture.
Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.
The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture.
Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.
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“Overall, How Race Survived U.S. History is a good book, and I do recommend it to those who are interested in learning more about the subject.
However, I have two issues with the writing/publication, which brought my rating down to 4 stars.
1) There were several times, especially in the first few chapters, where Roediger used what seemed to be intentionally confusing syntax. Grammar in writing exists as a way to ensure we can communicate as effectively as possible, and Roediger must have missed that memo. In the very least, he ignored it for the sake of including as much information in one sentence as possible. I took the most fault with his use (and disuse) of commas: there were at points absences of commas where they would be very beneficial, and at others an excess of commas in lieu of more useful alternatives. (Like, you know, just starting a new sentence.) In example, I give you a sentence from his introduction:
"Despite this, Obama supporters chanted 'RACE DOESN'T MATTER!' at his victory celebration in South Carolina, even as the national press, so euphoric a month previously, noted that in no non-caucus state had he exceeded 36% of the white vote, and in Democratic primaries at that."
While the writing did appear to improve in the later chapters (or perhaps I had grown used to deciphering his sentences), the first few chapters were difficult to read, and I almost put the book down for good.
2) The book doesn't contain a single footnote or citation. When I finish reading a work of nonfiction about a topic I am interested in, I use the footnotes to make a "to read" list. With How Race Survived U.S. History, I have to flip back through and skim the pages to find where he "cites" his sources by simply listing their names. I guess if I had known this prior to reading the book, I *could* have made the "to read" list as I read. . . or Roediger *could* have also just included footnotes.”
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