David Roediger

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

David Roediger is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, David Roediger has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Cultural Studies and 4 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in David Roediger's work include Race, History, and American Society (13 papers), American History and Culture (4 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (3 papers). David Roediger is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (13 papers), American History and Culture (4 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (3 papers). David Roediger collaborates with scholars based in United States and Ireland. David Roediger's co-authors include Rhonda F. Levine, Steve F. Fraser, David L. Brody, Sidney W. Mintz, Ric N. Price, Charles A. Gallagher, Susan Gubar, James R. Barrett, Theodore W. Allen and William L. Van Deburg and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

In The Last Decade

David Roediger

51 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Roediger United States	19	1.8k	299	296	284	245	61	2.5k
George Lipsitz United States	20	1.7k 1.0×	380 1.3×	426 1.4×	161 0.6×	338 1.4×	100	2.9k
Matthew Frye Jacobson United States	10	1.7k 1.0×	449 1.5×	199 0.7×	136 0.5×	195 0.8×	24	2.4k
Avery F. Gordon United States	13	1.2k 0.7×	162 0.5×	323 1.1×	245 0.9×	196 0.8×	34	2.1k
Katherine McKittrick Canada	15	1.7k 1.0×	287 1.0×	520 1.8×	357 1.3×	173 0.7×	22	2.9k
Orlando Patterson United States	19	1.7k 0.9×	179 0.6×	388 1.3×	591 2.1×	204 0.8×	62	2.8k
W. E. B. Du Bois United States	19	1.8k 1.0×	356 1.2×	139 0.5×	188 0.7×	139 0.6×	84	2.4k
Sylvia Wynter	7	1.1k 0.6×	336 1.1×	533 1.8×	252 0.9×	182 0.7×	9	2.0k
Brinda Bose India	10	1.0k 0.6×	314 1.1×	244 0.8×	363 1.3×	150 0.6×	20	2.1k
Laura Chrisman United Kingdom	14	997 0.6×	154 0.5×	219 0.7×	311 1.1×	211 0.9×	35	1.8k
Gareth Griffiths United States	4	1.1k 0.6×	287 1.0×	285 1.0×	384 1.4×	208 0.8×	6	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Roediger

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All Works

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Roediger, David. (2025). An Ordinary White. Fordham University Press eBooks.

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Roediger, David. (2019). Colored White. 4 indexed citations

3.

Roediger, David. (2016). Making Solidarity Uneasy: Cautions on a Keyword from Black Lives Matter to the Past. American Quarterly. 68(2). 223–248. 20 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (2016). The Racial Turn in Ethnic History. Journal of American Ethnic History. 36(2). 54–61. 2 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (2015). Remarks on Satnam Virdee'sRacism, Class and the Racialized Outsider. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(13). 2231–2236. 1 indexed citations

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Roediger, David, et al.. (2010). Wages of Whiteness and Racist Symbolic Capital. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 9 indexed citations

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Rawick, George P. & David Roediger. (2010). Listening to Revolt: Selected Writings of George Rawick. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 1 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (2006). A Half-Jubilee: Twenty-Five Years of Multiracial Scholarship at the Journal of American Ethnic History. Journal of American Ethnic History. 25(4). 43–52.

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Roediger, David. (2005). What's Wrong with These Pictures? Race, Narratives of Admission, and the Liberal Self-Representations of Historically White Colleges and Universities. Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis). 18(1). 203–222. 7 indexed citations

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Barrett, James R. & David Roediger. (2005). The Irish and the "Americanization" of the "New Immigrants" in the Streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930. Journal of American Ethnic History. 24(4). 3–33. 9 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (2004). Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States 1848-82. By Najia Aarim-Heriot (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xiv plus 289 pp. $39.95). Journal of Social History. 37(3). 802–804. 1 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (1996). White Looks: Hairy Apes, True Stories and Limbaugh's Laughs. Minnesota Review. 47(1). 37–47. 12 indexed citations

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Rose, Tricia, Andrew Ross, Robin D. G. Kelley, et al.. (1995). Race and Racism: A Symposium. Social Text. 1–1. 3 indexed citations

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Deburg, William L. Van, Theodore W. Allen, & David Roediger. (1995). The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 1. Racial Oppression and Social Control.. Journal of American History. 82(1). 173–173. 35 indexed citations

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Erickson, Peter, Theodore W. Allen, Tomás Almaguer, et al.. (1995). Seeing White. Transition. 166–166. 2 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (1994). Towards the abolition of whiteness : essays on race, politics, and working class history. 193 indexed citations

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Roediger, David, et al.. (1992). The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.. Journal of American History. 79(3). 1120–1120. 30 indexed citations

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Roediger, David, et al.. (1991). Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day.. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 45(1). 218–218. 1 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (1991). wages of whiteness. 30 indexed citations

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Roediger, David. (1989). History making and politics. International Journal of Politics Culture and Society. 2(3). 371–372. 2 indexed citations

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