Barry Goldberg

Associate Professor, PhD, Columbia

Associate Chair (Lincoln Center)

Late 19th and 20th century social history; history of labor;
race and ethnicity

A specialist in the interaction of class, racial, and ethnic identities in the labor movement and
wider political culture, he has published articles on "'Wage Slaves' and 'White Niggers'"
(recently republished in the Garland Press anthology, Critical Race Theory), "Let Them Eat
Multiculturalism", a review essay of Nathan Glazer's new book, We Are All
Multiculturalists Now, in New Politics (1997), as well as articles on [white] labor's
understanding of African American slavery, the history of social scientific constructions of
race and ethnicity, and the historiography of American immigration. He is currently at work
on a study of the shifting ideological vision of immigration historians, and a study of the
importance of "somewhat white" ethnics in affirming and undermining America's racial
boundaries.

Dr Goldberg is currently Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at the Lincoln Center
campus where his courses include the American history survey for the core, as well as
elective courses on "Ethnic America", "American Pluralism", and "Civil War Era". At the
graduate level he teaches a seminar on "Race, Ethnicity and Americanism".

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