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Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement Jung, Moon-Kie (University of Massachusetts)
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Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Jung, Moon-Kie (University of Massachusetts)
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift were tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and dock workers who challenged their powerful employers by joining the left-led International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union. In this theoretically innovative study, Moon-Kie Jung explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame entrenched racial divisions and successfully mobilized a mass working-class movement. He overturns the unquestioned assumption that this interracial effort traded racial politics for class politics. Instead, the movement "reworked race" by incorporating and rearticulating racial meanings and practices into a new ideology of class. Through its groundbreaking historical analysis, Reworking Race radically rethinks interracial politics in theory and practice.
320 pages, ill
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 12, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231135351 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 20 mm · 458 g |
