{"product_id":"workers-of-all-colors-unite-9780252044922","title":"Workers of All Colors Unite","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept and apply the ascendant tenets of scientific theories of race. But others stood with International Workingmen’s Association leaders J. P. McDonnell and F. A. Sorge in rejecting the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations, arguing instead that class played the preeminent role. \u003cp\u003e Costaguta charts the socialist movement’s journey through the conflict and down a path that ultimately abandoned scientific racism in favor of an internationalist class-focused and racial-conscious American socialism. As he shows, the shift relied on a strong immigrant influence personified by the cosmopolitan Marxist thinker and future IWW cofounder \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Costaguta’s findings torpedo the familiar notion that nineteenth-century socialists were indifferent toward race, and the interracial internationalism he recovers should be recognized as part of early socialism’s enduring legacy.\" --\u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lorenzo Costaguta has produced an important book that reimagines the history of labor, racism and antiracism, socialism, and the post-Civil War United States. An extraordinary work.” --Angela Zimmerman, author of \u003ci\u003eAlabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction. A Racialized History of the Origins of American Socialism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter One. “Freedom for All”: German American Socialism and Race before 1876 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter Two. “Geographies of Peoples”: Ethnicity and Racial Thinking in the Early SLP \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter Three. Must They Go? American Socialism and the Racialization of Chinese Immigrants, 1876-1890 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter Four. “Regardless of Color”: The SLP and African Americans, 1876-1890 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter Five. Savage Capitalists, Civilized Indians: The SLP and Native Americans, 1876-1890 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter Six. The SLP in the 1890s: Americanization and Socialist Evolutionism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Conclusion. The Past and the Future of Racial Socialism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400456642903,"sku":"9780252044922","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252044922.jpg?v=1730470727","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/workers-of-all-colors-unite-9780252044922","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}