Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. A Racialized History of the Origins of American Socialism

Chapter One. “Freedom for All”: German American Socialism and Race before 1876

Chapter Two. “Geographies of Peoples”: Ethnicity and Racial Thinking in the Early SLP

Chapter Three. Must They Go? American Socialism and the Racialization of Chinese Immigrants, 1876-1890

Chapter Four. “Regardless of Color”: The SLP and African Americans, 1876-1890

Chapter Five. Savage Capitalists, Civilized Indians: The SLP and Native Americans, 1876-1890

Chapter Six. The SLP in the 1890s: Americanization and Socialist Evolutionism

Conclusion. The Past and the Future of Racial Socialism

Notes

Index

About the Author

Lorenzo Costaguta is a lecturer in US history at the University of Bristol.

Reviews

"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." --Jacobin “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 Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South