Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The XVII Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 25 February, 7:30 PM, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

DAVID ROEDIGER, University of Illinois:  “Race and the Management of U.S. Labor: Thinking Historically from Now to Then”

David Roediger is the Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches history and African American Studies.  He is author of many important books, including The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York: Verso, 1991) and more recently How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (New York: Verso, 2008).

More information email Marcus Rediker or telephone (412) 648-7452.

By: Marcus Rediker