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...Leon Fink © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2015 EDITOR’S PREFACE Preface Leon Fink We are proud to entrust guest editors Susan Levine and Steven Striffler with Labor’s first-ever double issue. Thanks...

... on a Road , 708. 9 Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road , 708. 10 Hurston, “Last Slave Ship,” 352–53. 11 Diouf, Fighting the Slave Trade , xiii. 12 Foner, “Africa’s Role in the U.S. Slave Trade.” 13 See Gates, “Slave Kingdoms”; Kaba, “Atlantic Slave Trade”; and Gates, preface...

... people, like Kossola, the last generation that had experienced enslavement. 5 Interviewers included their own observations as part of the narrative to emphasize informants’ reliability as eyewitnesses to the events they described, as Hurston does for Kossola: “On the whole,” she notes in her preface...

... in her preface, was Lewis’s life story, “as told by himself,” with details occasionally hazy but the “essential truth” the ultimate aim. 2 For this Bookmark section, Labor offered four historians and writers an open-ended opportunity to reflect on some aspect of Barracoon from their particular...

... with rare and commanding power. As Eric Arnesen’s preface indicates, we recruited three accomplished historians—Catherine Stewart, Jason R. Young, and Thavolia Glymph—together with gifted literary scholar and writer Darryl Pinckney to “cast light on Hurston, her encounter with Lewis, Lewis’s life story...

... and Culture” series, along with a helpful contextual preface by historian Peter Alegi, for the benefit of North American readers. Marinovich pieces together a very important narrative told through his own inter- actions with some of the key and less key individuals involved in the strike. The main...

... for spreading “We Shall Not Be Moved.” In the early 1940s, the Almanac Singers, a Greenwich Village folk group that included Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie, introduced the song to the Popular Front canon. In his preface to The People’s Songbook (1948), folklorist Alan Lomax presented this growing...

... theory, part manifesto — sometimes moving at breakneck speed and frequently switching tracks en route to a destination somewhere in the borderlands between historiography and cultural politics. As Karuka states in his preface, the book “is not a work of historical recovery, nor does it focus...

... dissertation advisor). This can be explained by the fact that the book is, line for line, a virtually unrevised version of Mackaman’s 2009 PhD dissertation—even the one-page “Preface” is a lightly reworked version of the dissertation abstract. Unfortunately, the book therefore misses a decade’s worth...

... little distinction between those who are legal and those who are not. But in both countries, Gest finds that working-class whites frequently preface their remarks about immigrants with the remark, “I’m not a racist” (72). He interprets this not so much as a factual disclaimer but as an exhortation...

... to the eyes of Bolivians” (66). Field opens his preface with a 1963 visit to Bolivia by the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. The famous journalist found the country’s politics Byzantine and eccentric. Field unravels that complexity with care and clarity, and his book is a substantial contribution to our...

... Marlene Brant Castellano notes in her preface to the volume, it makes “a welcome and valuable contribution to documenting the continuity and adaptability of Indigenous women’s work as wave after wave of change swept through their communities” (x–xi). Indigenous Women and Work developed from a 2008...

... . Rather, as Hurston writes in the preface, it is “the life story of Cudjo Lewis, as told by himself.” 4 Lewis had spent five years and six months enslaved. He was eighty-six years old when Hurston last interviewed him at his home in Plateau, Alabama. For me, one of the most salient aspects of the story...

..., Pawel moves beyond Chavez, a rare feat among biographers of the man and the union. This is not to say that Chavez is absent. Pawel begins her preface by writing, “The history of the United Farm Work- ers union begins and ends with Cesar Chavez” (xi). She describes how union mem- bers fawned...

... of the Atlantic in this way is also to sell it short, for the book is more than that. It is, as the preface suggests, a very personal work, yet one drawing in the grand themes of history, which Rediker is a master at pulling together. That he begins with a story about finding...

... multiple readings; more than the visual rendering of their stories, they are works of art that can be enjoyed anew with every rereading. And to be sure, art, as the preface to Direct Action reminds us, “has always been a part of the workers’ movement.” In contrast to the other books considered here...

... that led readers to draw their own conclusions. The other advantage of shaping the story around a cast of characters was that it helped me to narrow the scope of a potentially unmanageable amount of material. I went where my characters went. As I note in the preface...

....” In his treatment of the legion of activists who populate his pages, Sugrue reflects well the spirit of the liberal/left academy today. In my reading,Sweet Land of 2. “In what sense is this polemical book ‘an untold history Katznelson asks in his preface. “Although many...

... to a recent publication by Kari Tapiola, an ILO executive director and former deputy director-general. This is not convincing. We should be cautious whenever a butcher inspects his own meat and praises it. Even more so since Tapiola warns the reader in his preface that he strives for “a selective memory...

..., 1989) rewards careful reading. It has just reappeared with a new preface. 3. Thomas A. Stewart, “A New 500 for the New Economy,” Fortune, May 15, 1995, 166–67. 4. This is the point made so effectively in Misha Petrovic and Gary G. Hamilton, “Making Global...