In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history David R. Roediger explores how
the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600s to the present day. 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 How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more
than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Roediger examines how race
intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history from democracy and economic
development to migration and globalisation.
