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White Working-Class Women and the Race Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Dana Frank
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz

Extract

In Towards the Abolition of Whiteness David Roediger tells the story of Covington Hall, the editor of a newsletter published by the Brotherhood of Timber Workers in Louisiana in 1913 and 1914. Roediger deftly analyzes efforts by Hall and other white writers in the brotherhood to construct cross-racial unity within an otherwise racially torn working class. He shows how Hall redrew the lines of solidarity: On one side were the degraded, of any race.On the other were enlightened workers who eschewed racial divisions, racist language, and stereotypes. “There are white men, Negro men, and Mexican men in this union, but no niggers, greasers or white trash,” proclaimed Ed Lehman, a soapbox speaker for the Brotherhood. A headline in the newsletter similarly asked readers to choose, “SLAVES OR MEN, WHICH?” Still more graphically, a cartoon commanded, “Let all white MEN and Negro MEN get on the same side of this rotten log.”

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NOTES

1. Roediger, David R., Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics and Working Class History (London, 1994), 127–80;Google Scholar quotations 127, 128, 158. All emphases and capitalizations are from the original quotes.

2. Ibid., 159.

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5. Rather than point fingers, let me use my own work as a negative example. In a 1995 article on “Race Relations and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1915–1929,” I rarely noted male unionists’ exclusion of women (including exclusionary practices by men of color), cast race relations as a negotiation largely between men, and in general ignored gender dynamics; yet I never marked my article as a male story—and this after writing a book in which I specifically argued against, and tried hard to move beyond, precisely this kind of gender slippage. Frank, Dana, “Race Relations and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1915–1929,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 86 (19941995):3544.Google Scholar

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27. Jones, “Encounters, Likely and Unlikely,” 346–47.

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76. Cobble, Dishing It Out, 23. Cobble adds: “Some explained that whites were more efficient, but most simply said that $16.50 a week was ‘too much to pay Negroes’”; 23. We can also speculate that the employers hired African Americans because they were cheaper, and without that incentive, they preferred whites.

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