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Throughout most of the human race’s written history there has been problems connected with the different types of race or ethnicity a person could be born into. For this class the easiest representation of this concept is ‘white’ Americans vs. other ethnic Americans that live within American borders.

Much like in juanrosasmp’s post ‘businessmen and marx’, I also noticed that in the article Whiteness and Race many of the works of fiction and even people from history that is mentioned all somehow revolve around business and the placement of people with ‘lower’ ethnicities. The works of fiction range from Out of This Furnace to King Coal, all of which have different groups complaining about another different group for one reason or another. Often times this was because different ethnic groups were readily hired over another, with African Americans being some of the last to be hired of the multitude people looking for work. Of course then there is the people from history that are mentioned. Such as Fredrick Douglass, Malcom X and Alex Hayley, all of whom had speculations about white immigrants coming over that could take available jobs from or learn to instantly start being racist towards African Americans. Roediger brought up that most of the social historians focused more on white immigrants and how they were treated within America instead of any overall history of how all immigrants within America were treated. Which could connect to Marxism through the idea that ethnic groups are not being treated in similar manners to another. That connects with Roediger statement that history surrounding the groups that are not considered ‘white’ enough and time periods where they were held under microscopes are the most studied. This is most likely because they are considered so different from the ideal whiteness.