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Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Paper, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13535-1
$26.50
/ £18.50
June, 2006
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13534-4
$48.50
/ £33.50
"Reworking Race will be recognized eventually as one of the major works on the history of labor in Hawai'i." — Jonathan Y. Okamura, The Journal of American History
"Well written, impressively researched, and theoretically insightful, Reworking Race is an important contribution to the field." — Francisca Oyogoa, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
"A smart, well researched, and amply documented monograph on a fascinating and instructive case." — Chris Rhomberg, Mobilization
"Sound research, crisp narrative, and innovative reworking of the concept of “interracialism”...an important contribution." — Jose M Alamillo, American Historical ReviewWashington State University
"Interracialism, Reworking Race refreshingly contends, involves a rearticulation of race and class as mutually (re)constituting. The case of Hawai`i before and after World War II is exemplary because of the concentration of capital and power, the alienation of labor, and the hierarchy of color. The making of a working-class interracialism is intellectually and politically expansive and liberating." — Gary Y. Okihiro, professor of international and public affairs, Columbia University, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History
"Well-written and meticulously researched, Reworking Race is the first to examine the historic formation of Hawaii's interracial working-class movement in the 1940s. A fascinating account of the mutual constitution of race and class, it will be pivotal in future debates in the fields of labor history, sociology of race, and ethnic studies." — Yen Le Espiritu, professor and chair of ethnic studies, University of California, San Diego
"This astonishing study has the rare distinction of succeeding equally as both theoretically informed social science and rigorously documented labor history. It shows concretely the human actions that created interracial class unity and the structural factors that enabled it to be created. Jung brings the specificities of a multiracial, white-minority Hawaii to the fore in a way that amply and arrestingly demonstrates how its story can change the whole story of race in colonial and U.S. history." — David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois and author of Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs