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5.0 out of 5 stars
An important story, well told.,
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This review is from: Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) (Paperback)
Bruce Nelson, a Dartmouth history professor has the seanachi (Irish story teller) gene. The story is of the role played by racial/ethnic identity in the working class. It comences in the nonunion era and comes up to almost the present time. It is told in significant detail, looking at many unions and zeroing in on the longshore unions and Steelworkers. It demonstrates the fludity and yet persistent influence of racial/ethnic identities, Irish identity having been most transformed and the "white" perception of African Americans being the most unchanged. Nelson laments the failure of working class identity to have trumped racial/ethnic identity. He does not address the rightness/wrongness of Affirmative Action today, but his story schould give substantial pause to any belief that ethnocentrism has suddenly ceased to exist.
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Divided We Stand by Bruce Nelson (Hardcover - January 15, 2001)
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