Labour's 'strange blindness' and the end of Jubilee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2147199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Cassano (Oakland University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 334-341 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2016.1109678 |
| OpenAlex | W2224604899 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay responds to David Roediger's Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. After a brief examination of the central themes of the book, I turn to the author's emphasis upon political agency. I argue that this emphasis is necessary, given the political and scholarly aims of the book. At the same time, I suggest that the agency depicted in Seizing Freedom was simultaneously constrained by the cultural, political, and social forces discussed in Roediger's earlier companion volume, The Wages of Whiteness. I end the essay with a short discussion of the labour leader William Sylvis that attempts to synthesize insights from Seizing Freedom and The Wages of Whiteness in order to explain the 'strange blindness' that led white labour to systematically ignore and repress the activity of black workers
Agency (philosophy · Blindness · Democracy · Emancipation · Political freedom · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |