About The Speaker: David Roediger teaches history and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. He earned a B.S. from Northern Illinois University. He completed a doctorate in History at Northwestern. Roediger has taught labor and Southern history at Northwestern, University of Missouri, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois. He has also worked as an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University.

He has written on U.S. movements for a shorter working day, on labor and poetry, on the history of radicalism, and on the racial identities of white workers and of immigrants. His books include Our Own Time, The Wages of Whiteness, How Race Survived U.S. History. The former chair of the editorial committee of the Charles H. Kerr Company, the world's oldest radical publisher, he has been active in the surrealist movement, labor support and anti-racist organizing.

This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice.