Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Another way to look at Hidden Injuries of Class is how racism helps many > whites accept sacrifices on the job, in that racism helps them translate > such sacrifices into the notion of (racialized) "dignity" of paid > employment. This is a clear example of how racism does domage to whites > themselves. The starting point of dialogue has to be to ask who benefits > from such a notion of "dignity," why anyone has to make sacrifices. ABSOLUTELY! > That said, it was and is not inevitable that class antagonism gets deformed > into a racist form. All workers make sacrifices on the job (and in fact > black workers generally make bigger sacrifices than whites under the same > employers), but not all workers translate such resentment into racism and > the scapegoating of blacks on welfare. yes, again. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
