Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction / Kathleen Cleaver -- PART I Introducing the White Worker -- On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction -- The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 1800 -- PART II Race and the Languages of Class from the Revolution to the Civil War -- 'Neither a Servant Nor a Master Am I': Keywords in the Languages of White Labor Republicanism -- White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor -- PART III Work, Culture and Whiteness in Industrializing America -- Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America -- White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War -- Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States -- PART IV The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness -- Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits.
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