‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice
Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and
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Dockworker Power: A New Book on Labor Activism in South Africa and the United States
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The National Character of Black Oppression
For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation
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Working-Class Politics and the Carceral State
In the United States, whiteness as metaphysical absence is a prerequisite for economic class neutralization, allowing the aesthetic malleability and
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Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement
Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of
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