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Racism and the Working Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Thomas C. Holt
Thomas C. Holt
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University of Chicago
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 45 , Spring 1994 , pp. 86 - 95
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1994

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