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My translation from Vandervelde’s German text. B. , 1961), 23. Thomas C. Holt, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 (Baltimore, 1992), xix. Eric J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: The Making of Modern English Society, 1750 to the Present Day (New York, 1968), 171; Brinley Thomas, Migration and Economic Growth, A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy (Cambridge. , 1954); Paul A. Baran and Paul M. B. Du Bois, Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (New York, 1945), 17.

13 In addition to overt characteristics such as skin colour, white townspeople particularly emphasized economic and class issues when they spoke of Mexicans. In doing so they indicated how class categories helped to constitute race. J. Simpson, a machinist for the Arizona Copper Company, believed Mexicans to be unfit parents for white children. He told the court: I’ll tell you. I don’t pay much attention to them, you know, the Mexican class of people; but it [sic] just this way: you see them work around there, and all get very little salary .

That both Mills and Simpson spoke with such assurance about the incomes of Mexican men suggests how important this issue was in constructing social relations in Arizona – between Whites and Mexicans, between white and Mexican working-class men, and among white men of different classes. 17 While class was explicitly connected to the definition of ‘Mexican’, it was a crucial though unmarked element in the configuration of ‘white’. In that definition, there was a presumed level of income and material comfort which was taken to be standard.

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