Q&A: What it Means to Be 'An Ordinary White'

Q&A: What it Means to Be 'An Ordinary White'

David Roediger is a historian of race and class in the United States, and a professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. He’s the author of crucial historical works on the construction of race, including the 1991 book Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. This interview follows the publication of his memoir this past March, in which he writes about growing up in small-town southern Illinois and his …