Historian David Roediger will present stories from his new book An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education. A direct response to the venom and durability of white nationalist attacks on Critical Race Theory, the memoir describes Roediger’s youth in a family of southern Illinois workers. He portrays the white racism he was carefully taught, both in a small all-white town and the city of Cairo.

David Roediger teaches American Studies and History at University of Kansas. He holds a PhD from Northwestern. His books include: Seizing Freedom, The Sinking Middle Class, The Wages of Whiteness, How Race Survived U.S. History, Class, Race and Marxism, and a recent autobiography, An Ordinary White.