David R Roediger was born on July 13,1952 and is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas, where he has been since the fall of 2014.
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David Roediger earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Northern Illinois University in 1975.
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David Roediger went on to do graduate study and earned a PhD in history from Northwestern University in 1980, where he wrote a dissertation under the direction of George M Fredrickson.
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David Roediger was assistant editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University from 1979 to 1980.
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David Roediger served as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri in 1985, rising to full professor in 1992.
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David Roediger moved to the University of Minnesota in 1995, and was chair of the university's American Studies Program from 1996 to 2000.
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David Roediger has served as the director for the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at UIUC.
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David Roediger is a member of the board of directors of the Charles H Kerr Company Publishers, a position he has held since 1992.
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David Roediger believes their struggle reflects the emergence of the modern theory of Color Consciousness, through which notions of "nations" and "races" were increasingly linked to color as the primary category of human difference.
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David Roediger claims that the social construction of the concept of a white race in the United States was a conscious effort by slave owners to gain distance from those they enslaved, who were generally non-European and non-Christian.
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David Roediger is researching the interrelation between labor management and the formation of racial identities in the US.