Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Preface to the Third Edition ix
Introduction Kathleen Cleaver xix
Introduction to the Fourth Edition Priyamvada Gopal xxvii
Part I Introducing the White Worker
1 On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction 3
2 The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 1800 19
Part II Race and the Languages of Class from the Revolution to the Civil War
3 'Neither a Servant Nor a Master Am I': Keywords in the Languages of White Labor Republicanism 43
4 White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor 65
Part III Work, Culture and Whiteness in Industrializing America
5 Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America 95
6 White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War 115
7 Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States 133
Part IV The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness
8 Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits 167
Selected Writings 185
Index 189