© Columbia University Press
Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
June, 2006
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13534-4
$48.50
/ £28.50
"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
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
“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