As immigration swelled at the end of the nineteenth century, the nation’s “real” Americans dug in their heels and created an oddly romantic and destructive notion of democracy called the “melting pot theory,” which they applied relentlessly to immigrant schoolchildren. …
In the 1960s, when I was a writer and organizer for the International Union of Electrical Workers, one of my jobs was to travel to communities where plants were closing (sometimes in the aftermath of a strike or other militant …
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