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Public Lecture: “Racialized Paths to Proletarianization: Myths about Black Economic Competition, Cheap Labor, and White Vulnerability”
Public Lecture: “Racialized Paths to Proletarianization: Myths about Black Economic Competition, Cheap Labor, and White Vulnerability”
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor" in WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL LOGIC OF WHITE VULNERABILITY. What did calls for the protection of "civilized labor" and a "white wage" mean to the history of race and class […]
