The politics of whiteness : race, workers, and culture in the modern South /

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"The Politics of Whiteness presents the first sustained analysis of white racial identity among workers in what was the South's largest industry - the textile industry - for much of the twentieth century. Grounding her work in a study of Rome, Georgia, and surrounding Floyd County from the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brattain, Michelle, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
Labor > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Employment > Southern States > History.
Labor movement > Southern States > History.
Travail > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Travail > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African Americans > Employment.
Labor.
Labor movement.
Race relations.
Arbeiterbewegung
Arbeitsbedingungen
Ethnische Beziehungen
Rassenverhoudingen.
Textielindustrie.
Southern States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Southern States.
USA > Südstaaten
Southern States > Race relations.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Boosterism, whiteness, and paternalism in the new south: the creation of wage work
  • "Labor's best friend": Talmadge, paternalism, and the 1934 strike
  • "So-called fair employment": World War II and whiteness
  • "Still a white man's Georgia": PAC, Operation Dixie, and the resurgence of Talmadgism
  • "Some Romans have red faces": the 1948 strikes
  • Making friends and enemies: political action in postwar Georgia
  • The "so-called 'Civil Rights' Bill" and the republicanization of Rome.

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