1. Does the essay have a thesis? If so, type it below.
Yes, the essay does have a thesis. The thesis is “What is striking is not only that the scholarship on race and labor is far richer, more nuanced, and diverse than the field’s critics admit, but the subject itself has become one of the most dynamic within labor history.”
2. Break down the general structure of the author’s essay. What happens in the first part of the essay? What happens next? Keep going until you reach the end of the essay.
Eric Arnesen’s general structure for his article is broken down into four different sections, which consist of an introduction, a beginning, middle, and ending topic. In the introduction, Arnesen presents how labor history focused on unions but did …show more content…
He first looks at David Roediger’s The Wages of Whiteness where Roediger looks at the history of how white workers have created the idea of whiteness and the racism towards the African-American working class. Arnesen here shows how Roediger evaluates this through social, political, psychological, and economic viewpoints. However, the author states that Roediger’s writings very broad and do not have an essential center point. From here, the author provides Alexander Saxton and Iver Bernstein’s writings which take a look at the rioters and other activist and their views concerning what Roediger had stated in his …show more content…
I also noticed a school of thought along with this combination as with several of the concepts and issues presented with the various topics that Anresen addresses. In his essay, he provides an adequate account of all sides and viewpoints of historians and their writings on the labor unions and racism seen in the working class against minorities. With the providing of these writings, he compares and contrasts several arguments, debates, and viewpoints that each historian presents. One of the best examples of this I thought was Anresen’s analysis of Herbert Hill and Herbert Gutman’s writings. I liked how the Anresen shows the contrast and debate between the two author’s viewpoints, especially how Hill attacks Gutman making the claim that his viewpoint was nothing more than an attempt “to create a myth.” I think that this is a good example as it shows the contrasting views of the two historians and their views. However, I believe that it would have been better if Gutman could have responded to Hill’s charges or Hill would have made his opinion towards Gutman’s writings on racism within labor unions before Gutman’s death. One of the worst examples of how he combines issues and concepts together is in his section on “African-American Working-Class Activism.” Towards the end of the article, Anresen looks at two historians Hahamovitch
Yes, the essay does have a thesis. The thesis is “What is striking is not only that the scholarship on race and labor is far richer, more nuanced, and diverse than the field’s critics admit, but the subject itself has become one of the most dynamic within labor history.”
2. Break down the general structure of the author’s essay. What happens in the first part of the essay? What happens next? Keep going until you reach the end of the essay.
Eric Arnesen’s general structure for his article is broken down into four different sections, which consist of an introduction, a beginning, middle, and ending topic. In the introduction, Arnesen presents how labor history focused on unions but did …show more content…
He first looks at David Roediger’s The Wages of Whiteness where Roediger looks at the history of how white workers have created the idea of whiteness and the racism towards the African-American working class. Arnesen here shows how Roediger evaluates this through social, political, psychological, and economic viewpoints. However, the author states that Roediger’s writings very broad and do not have an essential center point. From here, the author provides Alexander Saxton and Iver Bernstein’s writings which take a look at the rioters and other activist and their views concerning what Roediger had stated in his …show more content…
I also noticed a school of thought along with this combination as with several of the concepts and issues presented with the various topics that Anresen addresses. In his essay, he provides an adequate account of all sides and viewpoints of historians and their writings on the labor unions and racism seen in the working class against minorities. With the providing of these writings, he compares and contrasts several arguments, debates, and viewpoints that each historian presents. One of the best examples of this I thought was Anresen’s analysis of Herbert Hill and Herbert Gutman’s writings. I liked how the Anresen shows the contrast and debate between the two author’s viewpoints, especially how Hill attacks Gutman making the claim that his viewpoint was nothing more than an attempt “to create a myth.” I think that this is a good example as it shows the contrasting views of the two historians and their views. However, I believe that it would have been better if Gutman could have responded to Hill’s charges or Hill would have made his opinion towards Gutman’s writings on racism within labor unions before Gutman’s death. One of the worst examples of how he combines issues and concepts together is in his section on “African-American Working-Class Activism.” Towards the end of the article, Anresen looks at two historians Hahamovitch