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In the Shadow of Race

Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States

By: Victoria Hattam

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In the Shadow of Race

Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States

By: Victoria Hattam

Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. In the Shadow of Race recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means of assimilating and becoming white, but rather as a way of defending immigrant difference as distinct from race—rooted in culture rather than body and blood. Eventually, Hattam shows, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Census Bureau institutionalized this distinction by classifying Latinos as an ethnic group and not a race. But immigration and the resulting population shifts of the last half century have created a political opening for reimagining the relationship between immigration and race. How to do so is the question at hand. In the Shadow of Race concludes by examining the recent New York and Los Angeles elections and the 2006 immigrant rallies across the country to assess the possibilities of forging a more robust alliance between immigrants and African Americans. Such an alliance is needed, Hattam argues, to more effectively redress the persistent inequalities in American life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226319237

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Labor Visions and State Power

The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States

By: Victoria C. Hattam

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Labor Visions and State Power

The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States

By: Victoria C. Hattam

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400863082

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The Farmer's Benevolent Trust

Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945

By: Victoria Saker Woeste

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The Farmer's Benevolent Trust

Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945

By: Victoria Saker Woeste

Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self- sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural society long after industrialization radically transformed the business of agriculture. Even as farmers enthusiastically embraced cooperative marketing to create unprecedented industry- wide monopolies and control prices, they claimed they were simply preserving their traditional place in society. In fact, the new legal form of cooperation far outpaced judicial and legislative developments at both the state and federal levels, resulting in a legal and political struggle to redefine the place of agriculture in the industrial market. Woeste shows that farmers were adept at both borrowing such legal forms as the corporate trust for their own purposes and obtaining legislative recognition of the new cooperative style. In the process, however, the first rule of capitalism--every person for him- or herself--trumped the traditional principle of cooperation. After 1922, state and federal law wholly endorsed cooperation's new form. Indeed, says Woeste, because of its corporate roots, this model of cooperation fit so neatly with the regulatory paradigms of the first half of the twentieth century that it became an essential policy of the modern administrative state.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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080786711X

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In the Shadow of Race

Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States

By: Victoria Hattam

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Labor Visions and State Power

The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States

By: Victoria C. Hattam

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The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States

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In the Shadow of Race

In the Shadow of Race

Labor Visions and State Power

Labor Visions and State Power

The Farmer's Benevolent Trust

The Farmer's Benevolent Trust

In the Shadow of Race

In the Shadow of Race

Labor Visions and State Power

Labor Visions and State Power

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