Goldfield Roundtable: Was Another Course Possible for Steel Workers?
This is our second entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in.
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Roundtable on Michael Goldfield’s The Southern Key: Civil Rights & Democracy
Today we begin a roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s..
- by James Pope
- July 13, 2020
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George Floyd and the Costs of Racial Capitalism
George Floyd’s public viewing will be held this afternoon at The Fountain of Praise Church in southwest Houston. A private funeral service will.
- by Ken Estey
- June 10, 2020
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The Contagion and a Cure
Mark Lause looks at the 1793 yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia from a working class history perspective, and finds it informs us today..
- by Mark Lause
- May 18, 2020
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The Alabama Communists in Days of Yore
The rewriting of radical history has occupied two generations of US historians, in one way or another, and among some especially fine efforts.
- by Paul Buhle
- January 23, 2020
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Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation
This May I attended the commencement ceremony for a young cousin who was one of 117 graduates from an overwhelmingly black charter high.
- by Clarence Lang
- June 20, 2017
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How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions: An Arkansas Story
Much has been made in the recent campaign about the alienation of working-class whites from the Democratic Party. Michael Pierce shows this is.
- by Michael Pierce
- November 23, 2016
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Misrepresenting the White Working Class: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and McDowell County
The Guardian‘s West Coast bureau chief paid a quick visit to McDowell County, West Virginia in October to film a video for the.
- by Daniel Sidorick
- November 15, 2016
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Working on the Verge of “Campus Carry”
One of several nightmarish outcomes of Kansas' swing to the Tea Party Republican right following the presidential election of Barack Obama, the state.
- by Clarence Lang
- October 11, 2016
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Who is Shameless This Election Season? One TV Show’s Challenging Depiction of the Working Poor
Since the 2016 Presidential race began, pundits have been scrambling to understand what is apparently the most inscrutable segment of the Trump voting.
- by Pamela Fox
- September 29, 2016