The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in 19th Century America by Alexander Saxton, David R. Roediger

The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in 19th Century America

The Haymarket Series

Alexander Saxton, David R. Roediger

397 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level – from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from...

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