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History making and politics

  • Labor, Race and the Gutman Thesis: Responses to Herbert Hill
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  1. For my fuller views of this matter, see David Roediger, “What Was So Great About Herbert Gutman?” forthcoming inLabour/Le Travail.

  2. See Berlin's introduction to Herbert Gutman,Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York, 1988), p. 46.

  3. See David Roediger, “‘Labour in White Skin’: Race and Working Class History,” in Mike Davis and Michael Sprinker, eds.Reshaping the U.S. Left (London and New York, 1988), p. 287–308.

  4. Alexander Saxton,The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (Berkeley, 1971), x and passim.

  5. See Gutman's response to Manning Marable, “Toward a Black Politics: Beyond the Race-Class Dilemma,”The Nation, 232 (April 1981), 434.

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Roediger, D. History making and politics. Int J Polit Cult Soc 2, 371–372 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01384832

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