History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2017
304 pages
978-0-8223-7285-1 (ISBN)
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James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American working-class history by investigating the ways in which working-class people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities.
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History
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James R. Barrett is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author and editor of several books, most recently, The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City.
David Roediger is Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas and the author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All.
David Roediger is Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas and the author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All.
Content
Foreword / David R. Roediger ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. The Subjective Side of Working-Class History 1
1. The Blessed Virgin Made Me a Socialist Historian: An Experiment in Catholic Autobiography and the Historical Understanding of Race and Class 7
2. Was the Personal Political? Reading the Autobiography of American Communism 33
3. Revolution and Personal Crisis: William Z. Foster, Personal Narrative, and the Subjective in the History of American Communism 58
4. Blue-Collar Cosmopolitans: Toward a History of Working-Class Sophistication in Industrial America 77
5. The Bohemian Writer and the Radical Woodworker: A Study in Class Relations 102
6. Americanization from the Botton Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930 122
7. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the "New Immigrant" Working Class / James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger 145
8. Irish Americanization on Stage: How Irish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created a New Urban American Culture, 1880-1940 175
9. Making and Unmaking the Working Class: E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, and the "New Labor History" in the United States 192
Notes 209
Selected Bibliography 273
Index 277
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. The Subjective Side of Working-Class History 1
1. The Blessed Virgin Made Me a Socialist Historian: An Experiment in Catholic Autobiography and the Historical Understanding of Race and Class 7
2. Was the Personal Political? Reading the Autobiography of American Communism 33
3. Revolution and Personal Crisis: William Z. Foster, Personal Narrative, and the Subjective in the History of American Communism 58
4. Blue-Collar Cosmopolitans: Toward a History of Working-Class Sophistication in Industrial America 77
5. The Bohemian Writer and the Radical Woodworker: A Study in Class Relations 102
6. Americanization from the Botton Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930 122
7. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the "New Immigrant" Working Class / James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger 145
8. Irish Americanization on Stage: How Irish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created a New Urban American Culture, 1880-1940 175
9. Making and Unmaking the Working Class: E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, and the "New Labor History" in the United States 192
Notes 209
Selected Bibliography 273
Index 277
