| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement. By Moon-Kie Jung. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiv, 292 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-13534-3.)

In Reworking Race, the sociologist Moon-Kie Jung addresses the important research problem of "how to account for the historic formation of Hawaii's interracial labor movement" (p. 3). The movement was led by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ilwu), which successfully had organized sugar, pineapple, and stevedoring workers from several racial groups by 1946 (after its initial efforts in the late 1930s were temporarily halted by the declaration of martial law during World War II). Jung challenges the widely accepted explanation that the movement succeeded because a "leftist ideology of class" advanced by ilwu leaders and organizers overcame the harsh and persisting racial divisions among workers, "making them realize that class mattered and race did not" (p. 188). As he observes, the consensus view is that the emergence of Hawaii's "interracialism" was predicated on "deracialization," as workers went beyond race and organized around their common class interests. However, Jung contends that class ideology was not directly and solely adopted by workers, with race consequently fading in significance; instead, it served as the means for a "rearticulation," rather than a disarticulation, of race and class.

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