| Description |
xi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Haymarket series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction : from the social construction of race to the abolition of whiteness -- pt. 1. The new labor history and race -- 1. 'Labor in white skin' : race and working class history -- 2. The greatness of Herbert Gutman -- 3. Precapitalism in one confederacy : a note on Genovese, politics and the slave South -- 4. where communism was Black -- 5. Notes on working class racism -- 6. The crisis in labor history : race, gender and the replotting of the working class past in the United States -- pt. 2. Studies in whiteness and the replotting of US history -- 7. 'The so-called mob' : race, class, skill and community in the St. Louis General Strike -- 8. Gook : the short history of an Americanism -- 9. the racial crisis of American liberalism -- 10. Gaining a hearing for Black-White unity : Covington Hall and the complexities of race, gender and class -- 11. Whiteness and ethnicity in the history of 'white ethnics' in the United States -- Index. |
| Subject |
Working class -- United States -- Historiography.
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Racism -- United States -- Historiography.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Gook (The English word)
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| ISBN |
0860916588 |
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