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Newberry Seminar in Labor History January 18: Dennis Deslippe
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Seminar Date: | 2008-01-18 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-01-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
160146 |
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Friday, January 18, 2008, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
“We Must Bring Together a New Coalition”: The Challenge of Working-Class White Ethnics to Color-Blind Conservatism in the 1970s
Dennis Deslippe, Franklin & Marshall College
Commentators: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University, and Jack Metzgar, Roosevelt University
This essay examines working-class white ethnics’ rejection of middle-class suburbanite notions of racial innocence, meritocratic individualism, and idealized equality in post-civil rights America. Most scholarship in white ethnicity does not adequately capture the complex and often contradictory expressions of “ethniclass” identity in a decade characterized by working-class revolt, backlash, and retreat. I focus on progressive white ethnic leaders allied with the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs and their imprint on civic and popular discourse in a period where, despite its powerful effects in the corridors of power, color-blind conservatism failed to capture the views of a majority of white Americans.
All papers are pre-circulated electronically to those who plan to attend the seminar in person. For a copy of the paper, e-mail Jenny Butler at scholl@newberry.org, or call 312-255-3524. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.
http://www.newberry.org/scholl/schollhome.html
The Newberry Library Seminar in Labor History is co-sponsored by the History Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University and the Labor and Working Class History Association
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