According to Lizabeth Cohen, common union affiliation and allegiance to the Democratic Party blurred ethnic, if not racial, distinctions and, by the late 1930s, forged a working-class identity. Why, then, did race prove stronger than class among industrial workers in wartime and postwar Detroit?
Please answer one (1) of the following questions in a double-spaced, typewritten essay, with one inch or wider margins, not to exceed six pages in length.A good answer will marshal evidence from the assigned readings and from the lectures to support its argument. You may, of course, draw on outside reading, but to supplement, not … Read more