| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. By Bruce Nelson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xliv, 388 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-01732-8.)

Divided We Stand uses examples from the histories of longshoremen and steelworkers to argue that the quest for black equality has faced opposition from white workers in the United States. Asking why, Bruce Nelson poses three questions: (1) What was the relative importance of employers and workers in shaping racially segmented hierarchies in the workplace? (2) What was the relationship between organized labor and the struggle for black equality? and (3) What role did (white) workers themselves play in creating racial hierarchies? Although none of these questions receives a clear answer, Nelson believes that 1

until recent decades at least, the history of the white working class, in its majority, was one of self-definition in opposition to an often demonized racial Other and intense resistance to the quest of African Americans for full citizenship.

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