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42 Lab. Stud. J. 5 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/labstuj42 and id is 1 raw text is: * Official Journal of United Association for Labor Education Labor Studies journal 2017, Vol. 42(I) 5-9 Introduction @ 2016 UALE Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/0160449XI6677914 journals.sagepub.com/home/Isj By the end of the decade, the fatal shooting of a twenty-two-year-old black man, Daniel Bell, as he ran from white officers, was among policing-related incidents that escalated racial tensions. -Milwaukee, 1958 as summarized by Tula Connell, this volume The 2014 police killing of black college bound teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, involved two union members: the police officer and the mother of the vic- tim, a member of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 88. This special issue on Labor and Racial Justice offers a critical examination of the role and responsibility of workers and labor unions in constructing racist hierarchies and in dismantling them to create more just, fair, and equitable systems. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka stated, Racism is part of our inheritance as Americans, and this special issue wrestles with key dimensions of its living legacies. The call for papers invited scholarship on projects, initiatives, and campaigns that explored the complex realities of labor's twin impulses of perpetuating racism and propelling justice. Collectively, the articles capture how labor's dualities emanate from different actors and varied locations. They bring specificity to the circumstances and players that prod systems to change. The 2016 conference theme-and by extension, this special journal issue-is a testimony to the advocacy and foresight of Elise Bryant. Her decades of unwavering commitment to educate at the intersections of race, labor, and the arts are remarkable. Inspired by the excitement present at the widely attended #BlackLivesMatter panel organized by University of California-Berkeley's Steven Pitts at the 2015 United Association of Labor Educators conference, Elise argued it was fitting and timely to focus the next conference on labor and racial justice. Rather than a stand-alone spot- light, we hope this special issue encourages mainstream labor scholarship and conven- ings to integrate a complex racial justice analysis as a core lens. Each article furnishes an in-depth analysis that deftly blends history, sociology, and politics with community actors and national trends from 1860 to 1960. Combined, they furnish a solid history of the construction of key socio-economic structures and invite reflection on labor's role in the past, present, and future of this evolving democ- racy. Cedric de Leon asks provocatively, Why did civil and labor rights become decoupled? He delivers a surprising answer rooted in Civil War politics that traces the unravelling of an agenda where Radical Republicans pursued both Reconstruction and the eight-hour day. Venise Wagner and Tula Connell study Chicago and Milwaukee,

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