For a Racial and Transnational History of the Origins of American Socialism

Abstract

This essay provides a historiographical contextualization to the research that the author will publish in his forthcoming monograph, provisionally titled The Origins of Colorblind Socialism: Race and Class in the American Left, 1876-1899. Through a research in the multilingual socialist press, party archives and personal papers of socialist leaders, the book offers the first investigation of ideas of race in the American socialist movement at the end of the nineteenth century.