The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical
roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a
unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to
the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced
enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery,
rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled
over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as
people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of
economic freedom and full political rights.
After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and
the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly
details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor
and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites
in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and
haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the
complex interplay of local and national forces in American society
and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were
defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for
white-nonwhite relations in America.
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