Working-Class Histories

The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture

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In The White Scourage: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texan Cotton Culturehistorian Neil Foley…

“Identity, Pride, and a Paycheck: Appalachian and Other Southern Women in Uptown, Chicago, 1950-1970.”

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In this journal article Richard Guy argues that the voice of “women remains conspicuously absent or…

Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

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In the second chapter of his book, Max Fraser shares how hillbilly highway, formally known as the…
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