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.
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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
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White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes
During election years white people who do not have bachelor’s degrees (the increasingly common definition of “the working class”) become both a somewhat.
- by Jack Metzgar
- September 25, 2016
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Why Labor Historians Should Remember Leslie Brown
Even if you did not know her personally, you should mourn Professor Leslie Brown, who passed away earlier this month. She was many.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 12, 2016
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Paul Robeson, Black Dockworkers, And Labor-Left Pan-Africanism
Paul Robeson was one of the greatest black internationalists of the twentieth century. A gifted actor and singer, he was also an unabashed.
- by Peter Cole
- August 4, 2016
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The Right to Work, the Right to Carry, and the Right to Shoot
Cleveland's long history of guns is connected to anti-worker repression.
- by Chad Pearson
- July 18, 2016