In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed
rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a
Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the
United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar,
pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly joined the left-led
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and
challenged their powerful employers.
In this theoretically innovative study, Moon-Kie Jung explains
how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame entrenched
racial divisions and successfully mobilized a mass working-class
movement. He overturns the unquestioned assumption that this
interracial effort traded racial politics for class politics.
Instead, he shows how the movement "reworked race" by developing an
ideology of class that incorporated and rearticulated racial
meanings and practices.
Examining a wide range of sources, Jung delves into the
chronically misunderstood prewar racisms and their imperial
context, the "Big Five" corporations' concerted attempts to thwart
unionization, the emergence of the ILWU, the role of the state, and
the impact of World War II. Through its historical analysis,
"Reworking Race" calls for a radical rethinking of interracial
politics in theory and practice.
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