[Uwhistory] Event of Interest, David Roediger, 1-21-10 (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Subject: Event of Interest, David Roediger, 1-21-10

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Thank you,
Simpson Center for the Humanities

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David Roediger
History and African American Studies
University of Illinois

Thursday, January 21, 2010
5:00 pm
Communications 120

Race and the Management of Labor in US History

David Roediger teaches History and African American Studies at the University 
of Illinois. He was born in southern Illinois and graduated with a B.S. in 
Education from Northern Illinois University. He completed a doctorate in 
History at Northwestern University in 1979. Roediger has taught labor and 
Southern history at Northwestern, University of Missouri, and University of 
Minnesota. He also has worked as an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at 
Yale University. He has written on US movements for a shorter working day, 
labor and poetry, the history of radicalism, and the racial identities of white 
workers and immigrants. His books include Our Own Time, The Wages of Whiteness, 
How Race Survived US History, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness, Colored 
White, and Working Towards Whiteness. The former chair of the editorial 
committee of the Charles H. Kerr Company, the world?s oldest radical publisher, 
Roediger has been an active participant in the surrealist movement, labor 
support, and anti-racist organizations.

This lecture is presented by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, 
the Department of History, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and the 
Simpson Center for the Humanities, with thanks to Yoshiko Harden, Director of 
Multicultural Services and Student Development at Highline Community College.
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