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Class and the Color Line
Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
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Joseph Gerteis
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Edited by:
Julia Adams
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English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
This ms studies class and race boundaries, and interracial political coalitions, in two significant 19th century social movements--the Knights of Labor and the Populist movement.
Author / Editor information
Joseph Gerteis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is a coeditor of Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Class and the Color Line won the 2005 President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association.
Reviews
“No issue has dogged American history more than the entangling of race and class. At the end of the nineteenth century, the complicated relations between the two shaped political struggles that have influenced American politics ever since. The fate of Populism and the Knights of Labor is thus important not just for understanding the ‘Gilded Age’ but for understanding American society in general. Joseph Gerteis brings new insights to these crucial cases, especially about how local structural conditions shaped participation in broader movements, and about the interracial organizing that took place despite animosities and manipulations. His book deserves to be widely read.”—Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University
“The first serious review in years of the great late-nineteenth-century social movements. Combining a theoretical overview with selected case studies, Joseph Gerteis convincingly demonstrates how the race, class, and republican identities of the actors were shaped by the shifting strategic possibilities of the moment.”—Leon Fink, editor of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
“[A] fine study of race and class in the United States . . . [and] an impressive account of how organizational narratives shape social movement boundary work.”
-- Jeffrey Haydu Contemporary Sociology
“This innovative and insightful study sheds new light on interracial organizing by the Knights of Labor and the Populists in the late-nineteenth-century South and provides a framework for understanding the broader interactions between race and class politics in the United States and beyond.”
-- William P. Jones Journal of American Ethnic History
“This is a valuable book and looks upon the issue of trade union history and attempts to organise the working class to be more inclusive. . . . This is good examination of trade union history and its difficulties in drawing together different races of workers in the same class. It has good relevance and applicability for scholars in the field and as mentioned rather depressingly, these issues remain pertinent even today.”
-- Jeff Fernandez Newsletter of the British Sociological Association
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Republican Radicalism
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2. Race, Class, and Republican Virtue in the Knights of Labor
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3. The Knights of Labor in Richmond, Virginia
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4. The Knights of Labor in Atlanta, Georgia
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5. Race and the Populist ‘‘Hayseed Revolution’’
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6. Race and the Agrarian Revolt in Georgia
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7. Race and the Agrarian Revolt in Virginia
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8. Class, Status, Power, and the Interracial Project
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Appendix: Data Collection, Sources, and Methods
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Notes
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References
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Index
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eBook published on:
October 24, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9780822390237
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288
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18 tables, 10 figures
