David R. Roediger

Our Sociology reading for the academic year ahead.

Debates continue to rage across the political spectrum on the reality, or not, of white privilege. In this article, David Roediger argues that it is only by admitting both the reality of white advantage whilst also understanding the immense poverty and desperation of many poor white Americans, can we win in the struggle for a more humane society.

David Roediger on the development of Marx's thought on race and gender. Taken from Against the Current 195.