Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left

by Richard Iton

Book Overview

A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American exceptionalism. But these arguments, says Richard Iton, overlook a crucial factor--the powerful influence of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848476
• ISBN13: 9780807848470
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"