| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908–21. By Brian Kelly. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. x, 264 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02622-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06933-1.)

This well-crafted study provides useful chapters on coal operator paternalism, working-class interracialism, and world war and miner militancy, as well as detailed narratives of two strikes. Brian Kelly's central argument is one that should be mostly beyond dispute: that racial animus cannot be understood outside the parameters of class relations, that white elites were the primary beneficiaries of Alabama's persistent white supremacy, and that industrialists consciously employed a self-serving divide and conquer strategy to undermine the biracial class action of a mixed work force.

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