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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Moon-Kie Jung. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement. New York: Columbia University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 292. $45.00.
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| In the aftermath of the 1949 Hawaii longshoremen's strike, a union president proudly stated that unlike previous failed efforts this labor victory was attributed to "all the Japanese, Filipinos, Portuguese and all other nationalities working together in one union and calling each other brothers and sisters" (p. 183). How and why this interracial union solidarity developed in postwar Hawaii is the central focus of Moon-Kie Jung's book. Jung makes a convincing case for the study of "interracialism" in American labor history. |
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