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.
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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
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Racism and the “Working Class” in Media Coverage of U.S. Politics
During the first Democratic presidential debate, a friend of mine posted on Facebook: “Sanders did it! He said working class! Everybody drinks!” Robyn.
- by Robyn Muncy
- June 22, 2016
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The Million Man March at Twenty: Revisiting a Spectacle of “Atonement,” Class Stewardship, and Patriarchy
The Million Man March commemorates its twentieth-year anniversary this month, which historians argue had problematic racial, class, and gender politics. Clarence Lang explores.
- by Clarence Lang
- October 16, 2015
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Protest, Politics and Policing: What Bayard Rustin Could Tell the Ferguson-Garner Movement
“I can’t breathe” actions in street crossings, sports fields and other civic spaces have blown new life into civil rights public history. Demonstrators.
- by Roberta Gold
- January 19, 2015
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Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police.
- by Sam Mitrani
- December 29, 2014
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On Ferguson, Missouri: History, Protest, and “Respectability”
It is difficult to write about the situation in the black working-class community of Ferguson, Missouri, which began last week with the police.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 17, 2014
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Be Consolated, John Handcox
John L Handcox was an African American born in Brinkley, Arkansas, in 1904 at one of the worst times and in one of.
- by Michael Honey
- April 10, 2014