Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism Costaguta Lorenzo
Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism Costaguta Lorenzo As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question…
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Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism Costaguta Lorenzo
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept and apply the ascendant tenets of scientific theories of race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view.
McDonnell and F. A. But others stood with International Workingmen's Association leaders J. P. Sorge in rejecting the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations, arguing instead that class played the preeminent role.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