1. The Bridge over the Racial Divide
... regarding society's ability to organize in such a fashion, Wilson is extremely optimistic. I believe Katznelson's relative pessimism stems from his distress over the ongoing fragmentation, refragmentation, structure and substructure of the amorphous, heterogeneous American (as opposed to European) working class. A hint of this pessimism/realism is suggested in his inclusion in "City ... Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: The native born and the foreigners, and the latter into the Irish, the Ger...
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