HISTORY 152A Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Haole, Japanese In Hawaii, Pineapple
30 Nov 2017
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3:05 pm: before wwii, workers didn"t struggle against big 5 employers interracially. 1920s sugar strike: japanese + filipinos combined temporarily for convenience >split once defeated. Rethinking race, nation, and class: panethnicity: assumption of a supraethnic identity whose boundaries shaped by societal discrimination + state practices, marxist views. Racial divisions seen as obstacles on true path of working-class formation inadequately analyzed though. Focus on capitalists" class interests to explain working-class racial inequalities + divisions ignores racial notions + dispositions that underlie and enable most deliberately divisive practices: class reductionism has led many to disengage from, disregard, even disdain. Community by its central concern w/ economic: racism isn"t unidimensional also be about presumed suitability/unsuitability for civic inclusion. Racial hierarchy of portuguese, japanese, and filipino labor: these 3 most numerous in sugar industry, haole almost exclusively in top, managerial positions >showed hierarchy, filipinos almost entirely confined to unskilled labor positions while portuguese + Japenese found in supervisory, skilled, and semi-skilled positions.
