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Canada and the United States

Mark Fannin. Labor's Promised Land: Radical Visions of Gender, Race, and Religion in the South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 355. $40.00.

In this study of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (BTW) and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU), Mark Fannin argues that the two organizations challenged the "traditional" southern ideas about race relations and social power. According to Fannin southerners' ideas about race and class supported the interests of elites. That "common" southerners, such as the men and women targeted by the STFU and the BTW, embraced those ideas revealed how effective the hegemonic discourse of the powerful had been. By keeping whites and blacks divided, employers and others who had traditionally wielded power in the region could continue to dominate the social order. The leaders of the two unions understood that whites and blacks would have to unite to achieve their goals as they struggled to overcome the manipulations of employers.

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