On 11/4/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I haven't read this book yet (I'd like to soon!), but racism and nativism don't quite explain the absence of a social democratic party or any other kind of mass party on the Left in the USA.
Well then perhaps you should read the book before arguing against it because the book doesn't claim that racism and nativism explain the absence of a social democratic party in the USA. What the book is concerned with is the dialectical/historical interaction between race, class and gender -- if that isn't too telescopic a description of its thesis. What particularly impressed me about it was the way that the author examined cultural forms of expression -- and very centrally the black-face minstrel show -- as the media through which both change and stagnation occurred. -- Sandwichman
