I am suspect of the usage of the words "nig---", coon, Buck, "ne--rs, Mose in two courses that I have taken so far here at GA State.  I understand the point the author is trying to contrast with the legacy of White workers and White Captialists dehumanizing the "other" populations in the US, in this case African-Americans, mostly, and in some cases the Indians.  He stresses his points with his own childhood in the 1960s,  growing up in Missouri.  He explains how the White lower class workers focused their attention to not being servantile or slave-like becuase then they would be no better than Black persons.  He goes on to connect Black with being inferior, slaves, lazy, unintelligent, and not deserving of freedoms and citizenship according the the US White Power System Structure (this is a Hamilton term, though not copyrighted yet).  The irony in all of these notions is that the very Black people who are hated by White members of society, they put on Black face and mock Black behavior for entertainment and business ventures.  Just like the author said in the beginning of this book, his schoolmates disliked Black people but cheered for Black athletes like Bob Gibson of the Cardinals, listened to Smokey Robinson, and more than likely, danced to Black music.  Overall, the book rings home to my childhood and life experiences becuase the author is mainly recognizing "White Privilege" in that White members of society are quickly to reach a solidarity in "Whiteness"  and fight against a non-White group that is not a threat to them, rather than fight the White groups that hold the power over them and the White groups that are exploiting them.  So it becomes a case of choosing Race Likeness over Class/Economic Likeness.