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The Wages of Whiteness In The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David Roediger, we are able to examine the antebellum era with emphasis on class formation and the fluidity of racial boundaries in popular culture. According to Roediger, mobbing, blackface and minstrelsy are key elements in the formation of the white-working class. During the antebellum time period, Blacks were victimized by the white mobs. The African – American …

…main reason for the formation of a white working class, a set of whites that were doing the same jobs as Blacks and they resented the fact that they were on the same level as Blacks. Thus, its certainly possible for a creation of a white working class as a result of a societal fabrication of people with similar characteristics to go against Blacks who were considered contrary to the social norms at the time.