Red Emma’s

Roediger's work has long been of central importance to Red Emma's, and to anyone interested and invested in a radical critique of whiteness. With books such as How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon; and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, Roediger has driven forward the field of critical race studies, and pushed us all to question our own roles - whether implicit or explicit - in producing and prolonging a culture of racial injustice.

In Seizing Freedom​, Roediger turns his eye toward the narrative of Emancipation, reinstating ex-slaves’ own “freedom dreams” in constructing these histories, and unfolding a masterful account of the emancipation and its ramifications on a whole host of day-to-day concerns for Whites and Blacks alike, such as property relations, gender roles, and labor.