... Williams, Fiona, Race/ethnicity, gender, and class in welfare states: a framework for com-pa... more ... Williams, Fiona, Race/ethnicity, gender, and class in welfare states: a framework for com-parative analysis, Social Politics, 2:2 [95], 127 ... E. GREAT DEPRESSION, NEW DEAL, & RISE OF THE CIO Storrs, Landon RY, 'An independent voice for unorganized workers: the National ...
This Bibliography enumerates the 2006 scholarly English language literature relating to Anglophon... more This Bibliography enumerates the 2006 scholarly English language literature relating to Anglophone labor and working-class history in multidisciplinary perspective. Each section is subdivided into monographs, journal articles, and dissertations. Informational annotations are provided only when a work’s title does not convey essential information, such as chronological or geographical scope, personal or corporate names, topic, or relevance. The citations are limited to works from the calendar year in the Bibliography’s title; thus the date of publication is omitted from each citation. For space considerations, citations only give the name of the first-listed author.
... {working-class/labor history approach} Zeita, Joshua Michael, The Missouri Compromise revisi... more ... {working-class/labor history approach} Zeita, Joshua Michael, The Missouri Compromise revisited: rhetoric and the emergence of ... Dreiling, Michael C., The class embeddedness of corporation political action: leadership in defense of NAFTA, Social Problems, 27:1 [00], 2148. ...
With the 2005 volume, the domain of the Bibliography has been expanded, in keeping with the evolv... more With the 2005 volume, the domain of the Bibliography has been expanded, in keeping with the evolving mission of Labor History, from the scholarly literature of US labor history to that of labor history worldwide. As before, the perspective is interdisciplinary, reflecting both the subject matter and the literature relating to labor. However, due to space limitations, coverage has been restricted to monographs, journal articles (including articles in Labor History), and dissertations in English. Likewise, conference presentations are not listed. (For information on conferences, including programs, see Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide5http://www.conferencealerts.com4.) Items cited are from the calendar year in the Bibliography’s title. Informational annotations are provided only when a work’s title does not convey essential information, such as chronological or geographical scope, personal or corporate names, topic, or relevance. There is no index. The Bibliography is organized into the four sections listed below. Please be aware that citations for web/internet and other items in electronic format are listed under their appropriate form/genre, e.g., articles in electronic serials are listed under serials.
... Montgomery, Mark and James Cosgrove, The effect of employee benefits on the demand for part-... more ... Montgomery, Mark and James Cosgrove, The effect of employee benefits on the demand for part-time workers, Industrial and Labor Relations ... Murolo, Priscilla, Working girls' clubs, 1884-1928: class and gender on the common grounds of Womanhood, DAI 54:l [93], 293-294A ...
... 1-163. { Thematicportion of issue, with an introduction by David Monrgome y. See selected art... more ... 1-163. { Thematicportion of issue, with an introduction by David Monrgome y. See selected articles throughout the bibliography} Boris, Eileen, “When work is slavery,” Social Justice, 25:l [98], 28-46. Busman, Deb, “Representations ...
This massive bibliography (hereafter ACA), complied over the course of a long and distinguished c... more This massive bibliography (hereafter ACA), complied over the course of a long and distinguished career by John Earl Haynes, Ph.D., 20th Century Political Historian, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, and a leading bibliographer, documentary editor, and historian of U.S. communism, is an important contribution to the reference literature of the history of ‘‘American’’ (i.e. United States) communism and anti-communism. At once learned and engagé, ACA provides extensive coverage of the literature across the range of this multifaceted area of study, and demonstrates Haynes’ mastery of the sources and literature. All researchers in the field are indebted to Haynes for the monumental undertaking of bringing together and making accessible bibliographic data for a vast corpus of material, and for updating it regularly. However, ACA is one historian’s ‘‘working’’ bibliography, a genre typically exhibiting less uniformity regarding matters of domain, scope, methodology, and organization than the standard academic bibliography. Thus, while ACA is a unique resource that may be profitably consulted by all those working in the field of U.S. communist history, it will be most useful (and congenial) to those sharing Haynes’ research interests (Soviet influence and espionage, anticommunism, and the ‘‘core’’ areas of communist labor and political activity) and political and historical perspectives (conservative, and sharply critical of ‘revisionist’ historians). This is (secondarily) because these themes receive somewhat more extensive coverage, and (principally) because the descriptive and evaluative content of the bibliography’s selective and non-standardized annotations, while highly knowledgeable, is heavily weighted in support of Haynes’ interests and perspectives, while often omitting comparable descriptive content useful for other research concerns and outlooks.
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA co... more The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the former and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the Communist parties of those countries. Anti-communism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, i.e. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/WWW discussion lists, etc.) see the Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism and the Historians of American Communism Discussion List
Michael Nash became Director of the Tamiment Library at NYU in the summer of 2002 some fifteen mo... more Michael Nash became Director of the Tamiment Library at NYU in the summer of 2002 some fifteen months after the untimely death of his predecessor, Debra Bernhardt. The reputation of this venerable collection of materials on U.S. labor and radical history was well established, but it was a time for innovation and for bringing Tamiment’s cataloguing and outreach practices into the twentieth-first century. Mike came armed with his own vision for the Library and with tremendous energy for the tasks at hand. The changes he wrought were many, but this brief account, based on my experiences working with him, will focus mainly on his accomplishments in collection-building and in enhancing access to many of Tamiment’s “hidden” riches. One of Mike’s early concerns was to ensure that the Library presented a welcoming ambience for researchers and students, as well as providing topnotch reference service. Toward that end, in 2003, the Library hired Donna Davey, whose writ included not only overseeing technical and public services for library materials, but also broad responsibility for public services as a whole, including standardizing reference procedures, and maintaining and upgrading Tamiment’s website. Nearly a decade later, at the time of Mike’s passing away the Library had a presence on the major social networks and also on a Special Collections blog. And thanks to Ms. Davey the Library had experimented with sharing digitized material from its collections via services such as ArtStor. Mike, with the assistance of Associate Head Gail Malmgreen and of myself as Tamiment Archivist, vigorously tackled the Library’s substantial backlog of unprocessed collections and inadequate cataloguing. He designed a grantfunded project that resulted in the processing of the Library’s vast array of “vertical files” of printed ephemera, thus opening up a previously uncatalogued treasure trove of rare material. He had arrived at the Library to find only a small number of finding-aids and inventories available online; by 2012 Tamiment’s fully searchable online collection guides numbered almost 1,500 and made the materials they dealt with not only more accessible but also more valuable. During Mike’s years as Director of the Library it also entered the world of digitizing collections with the Harry Randall 15 International Brigade Photograph Collection and Selected Photographs from the International Brigades
many different strands, varieties, and shades of communism. Having closely listened to Eastern Eu... more many different strands, varieties, and shades of communism. Having closely listened to Eastern European dissidents from communist one-party rule in the late 1980s, I could not help but marvel at both the sense of betrayal, yet also the sense of continued hope in finding a socially equitable and economically sustainable alternative—communist or not—to the sweeping victory of corporate capitalism. In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the hopes have since largely been crushed (I borrowed the terminology from East German activists when I entitled my book on this topic We Were the People). Despite Taylor’s detailed and evocative chronology of CP activities in North Carolina, where the members of the NCCP fit into this larger historical canvass remains less than clear. But Gregory Taylor is right: there is good reason—some would say increasingly pressing reason—to learn from past attempts to carve out a future in which ‘‘the entire population, not simply the plutocratic elite,’’ as Taylor summarizes his subjects’ objectives, ‘‘enjoy the full benefits of social justice’’ (p. 214).
This is an unpublished, undated and incomplete memoir that covers James S. Allen's tenure (1962-1... more This is an unpublished, undated and incomplete memoir that covers James S. Allen's tenure (1962-1972) as President and Editor-In-Chief of International Publishers (hereafter, IP), the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) publishing house; reminiscences of his on and off work at IP in previous decades, telling character sketches and anecdotes regarding IP's legendary founder, Alexander Trachtenberg, 1 in effect makes Allen's memoir into something like an informal, if incomplete, history of IP. Allen's commitment to professional standards, and pride in his accomplishments is clear, as he discusses both his strategic vision for IP and the nuts and bolts of its operations. Allen also addresses the sometimes difficult relationship between IP and the CPUSA, his relationship with William Z. Foster, and how IP was affected by and responded to the political and legal repression of the Communist movement, as well as to the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of the New Left. The memoir is part a book-length unpublished and undated autobiographical typescript, ''Visions and Revisions,'' in the James Allen Papers at the Tamiment Library (TAM 142; Box 5, folder 20, contains ''Marxist Publisher''), and is preceded herein, on a separate page, by a thank-you note, presumably from Allen's son Jesse, to Allen's good friend and comrade Gil Green, for his talk at a memorial service for Allen.
... Press, 2002), 230 pp. Freiheit und Offentlichkeit: Politischer Samisdat in der DDR 19851989;... more ... Press, 2002), 230 pp. Freiheit und Offentlichkeit: Politischer Samisdat in der DDR 19851989; eine Dokumenta-tion, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Hg. (Berlin: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft, 2002), 597 pp. Historical Materialism and ...
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA co... more The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the formerly and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the communist parties of those countries. Anticommunism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, e.g. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/World Wide Web discussion lists, etc.) see the Historians of American Communism Discussion List
-. Dorothy Kenyan Papers: Lawyer, Writer, and Political Activist, 1888–1998. Bethesda, MD: a UPA ... more -. Dorothy Kenyan Papers: Lawyer, Writer, and Political Activist, 1888–1998. Bethesda, MD: a UPA collection from Lexis-Nexis, 2009. Includes her anti-communist activities. -. An Index to the Microfilm Edition of J. Edgar Hoover and Radicalism in Hollywood; Part 1, Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry, Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 2009. Reproduces the confidential letters of J. Edgar Hoover. FBI documents concerning radical artists, writers, actors and musicians investigated beginning in July 28, 1942 (Includes censored text). -. International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online 22 (2009).
... Marxist literary criticism, aide to Vito Marcantonio ... between George Meany and Walter Reut... more ... Marxist literary criticism, aide to Vito Marcantonio ... between George Meany and Walter Reuther [role of] Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown crucial agency of AfricanAmerican trade unionists A. Philip Randolph Maida Springer-Kemp and George McCray. Wilkins, Fanon ...
... Gonzalez, Gabriela, Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca: the Politics of Benevolence and Radi... more ... Gonzalez, Gabriela, Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca: the Politics of Benevolence and Radical Reform, Frontiers: A Journal of Women ... Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana, Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism, Public Culture 16:1 (2004), 129. ...
Some time ago I had a conversation with an esteemed colleague who suggested that American Communi... more Some time ago I had a conversation with an esteemed colleague who suggested that American Communist History’s style sheet requires the exclusive usage of the upper case for ‘‘C/communism,’’ ‘‘C/communist,’’ and ‘‘anti-C/communist’’ in reference to post-1917 communism (as distinguished from pre-1917 communism and communism as theory or desideratum). My colleague’s principal reason, aside from the typographical benefits of consistency and the highlighting of the difference between these senses of C/communism, was semantic, i.e. that post-1917 communism is a movement manifested in (upper case) political parties and nation states, not an abstraction, but rather a unique concrete ‘‘thing’’ whose P/proper ‘‘name’’ is ‘‘Communism.’’ In addition, my colleague maintained that in some instances the usage of the lower case in reference to post-1917 communism stems from an attempt, be it unconscious or deliberate, by those sympathetic to C/communism to distance themselves from a problematic legacy. This last point struck home. As an archivist-historian of C/communist (familial) provenance I have a complicated relationship with this inheritance, which gives rise to a mixture of feelings, including pride and dismay. In a recent contribution to American Communist History I used the lower case exclusively, although elsewhere I have used the upper case. I did so for typographical economy (why use two cases when one will suffice?) and to stress the linkage and continuity between ‘‘communism’’ and ‘‘Communism.’’ Was there perhaps an unconscious motivation – shame and unwillingness to ‘‘own’’ my contradictory heritage? While I thought the proposed style sheet requirement unduly prescriptive, I was forced to critically re-examine my heretofore unexamined assumption that some system of mixed C/capitalization is at once appropriate and helpful
... Williams, Fiona, Race/ethnicity, gender, and class in welfare states: a framework for com-pa... more ... Williams, Fiona, Race/ethnicity, gender, and class in welfare states: a framework for com-parative analysis, Social Politics, 2:2 [95], 127 ... E. GREAT DEPRESSION, NEW DEAL, & RISE OF THE CIO Storrs, Landon RY, 'An independent voice for unorganized workers: the National ...
This Bibliography enumerates the 2006 scholarly English language literature relating to Anglophon... more This Bibliography enumerates the 2006 scholarly English language literature relating to Anglophone labor and working-class history in multidisciplinary perspective. Each section is subdivided into monographs, journal articles, and dissertations. Informational annotations are provided only when a work’s title does not convey essential information, such as chronological or geographical scope, personal or corporate names, topic, or relevance. The citations are limited to works from the calendar year in the Bibliography’s title; thus the date of publication is omitted from each citation. For space considerations, citations only give the name of the first-listed author.
... {working-class/labor history approach} Zeita, Joshua Michael, The Missouri Compromise revisi... more ... {working-class/labor history approach} Zeita, Joshua Michael, The Missouri Compromise revisited: rhetoric and the emergence of ... Dreiling, Michael C., The class embeddedness of corporation political action: leadership in defense of NAFTA, Social Problems, 27:1 [00], 2148. ...
With the 2005 volume, the domain of the Bibliography has been expanded, in keeping with the evolv... more With the 2005 volume, the domain of the Bibliography has been expanded, in keeping with the evolving mission of Labor History, from the scholarly literature of US labor history to that of labor history worldwide. As before, the perspective is interdisciplinary, reflecting both the subject matter and the literature relating to labor. However, due to space limitations, coverage has been restricted to monographs, journal articles (including articles in Labor History), and dissertations in English. Likewise, conference presentations are not listed. (For information on conferences, including programs, see Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide5http://www.conferencealerts.com4.) Items cited are from the calendar year in the Bibliography’s title. Informational annotations are provided only when a work’s title does not convey essential information, such as chronological or geographical scope, personal or corporate names, topic, or relevance. There is no index. The Bibliography is organized into the four sections listed below. Please be aware that citations for web/internet and other items in electronic format are listed under their appropriate form/genre, e.g., articles in electronic serials are listed under serials.
... Montgomery, Mark and James Cosgrove, The effect of employee benefits on the demand for part-... more ... Montgomery, Mark and James Cosgrove, The effect of employee benefits on the demand for part-time workers, Industrial and Labor Relations ... Murolo, Priscilla, Working girls' clubs, 1884-1928: class and gender on the common grounds of Womanhood, DAI 54:l [93], 293-294A ...
... 1-163. { Thematicportion of issue, with an introduction by David Monrgome y. See selected art... more ... 1-163. { Thematicportion of issue, with an introduction by David Monrgome y. See selected articles throughout the bibliography} Boris, Eileen, “When work is slavery,” Social Justice, 25:l [98], 28-46. Busman, Deb, “Representations ...
This massive bibliography (hereafter ACA), complied over the course of a long and distinguished c... more This massive bibliography (hereafter ACA), complied over the course of a long and distinguished career by John Earl Haynes, Ph.D., 20th Century Political Historian, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, and a leading bibliographer, documentary editor, and historian of U.S. communism, is an important contribution to the reference literature of the history of ‘‘American’’ (i.e. United States) communism and anti-communism. At once learned and engagé, ACA provides extensive coverage of the literature across the range of this multifaceted area of study, and demonstrates Haynes’ mastery of the sources and literature. All researchers in the field are indebted to Haynes for the monumental undertaking of bringing together and making accessible bibliographic data for a vast corpus of material, and for updating it regularly. However, ACA is one historian’s ‘‘working’’ bibliography, a genre typically exhibiting less uniformity regarding matters of domain, scope, methodology, and organization than the standard academic bibliography. Thus, while ACA is a unique resource that may be profitably consulted by all those working in the field of U.S. communist history, it will be most useful (and congenial) to those sharing Haynes’ research interests (Soviet influence and espionage, anticommunism, and the ‘‘core’’ areas of communist labor and political activity) and political and historical perspectives (conservative, and sharply critical of ‘revisionist’ historians). This is (secondarily) because these themes receive somewhat more extensive coverage, and (principally) because the descriptive and evaluative content of the bibliography’s selective and non-standardized annotations, while highly knowledgeable, is heavily weighted in support of Haynes’ interests and perspectives, while often omitting comparable descriptive content useful for other research concerns and outlooks.
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA co... more The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the former and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the Communist parties of those countries. Anti-communism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, i.e. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/WWW discussion lists, etc.) see the Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism and the Historians of American Communism Discussion List
Michael Nash became Director of the Tamiment Library at NYU in the summer of 2002 some fifteen mo... more Michael Nash became Director of the Tamiment Library at NYU in the summer of 2002 some fifteen months after the untimely death of his predecessor, Debra Bernhardt. The reputation of this venerable collection of materials on U.S. labor and radical history was well established, but it was a time for innovation and for bringing Tamiment’s cataloguing and outreach practices into the twentieth-first century. Mike came armed with his own vision for the Library and with tremendous energy for the tasks at hand. The changes he wrought were many, but this brief account, based on my experiences working with him, will focus mainly on his accomplishments in collection-building and in enhancing access to many of Tamiment’s “hidden” riches. One of Mike’s early concerns was to ensure that the Library presented a welcoming ambience for researchers and students, as well as providing topnotch reference service. Toward that end, in 2003, the Library hired Donna Davey, whose writ included not only overseeing technical and public services for library materials, but also broad responsibility for public services as a whole, including standardizing reference procedures, and maintaining and upgrading Tamiment’s website. Nearly a decade later, at the time of Mike’s passing away the Library had a presence on the major social networks and also on a Special Collections blog. And thanks to Ms. Davey the Library had experimented with sharing digitized material from its collections via services such as ArtStor. Mike, with the assistance of Associate Head Gail Malmgreen and of myself as Tamiment Archivist, vigorously tackled the Library’s substantial backlog of unprocessed collections and inadequate cataloguing. He designed a grantfunded project that resulted in the processing of the Library’s vast array of “vertical files” of printed ephemera, thus opening up a previously uncatalogued treasure trove of rare material. He had arrived at the Library to find only a small number of finding-aids and inventories available online; by 2012 Tamiment’s fully searchable online collection guides numbered almost 1,500 and made the materials they dealt with not only more accessible but also more valuable. During Mike’s years as Director of the Library it also entered the world of digitizing collections with the Harry Randall 15 International Brigade Photograph Collection and Selected Photographs from the International Brigades
many different strands, varieties, and shades of communism. Having closely listened to Eastern Eu... more many different strands, varieties, and shades of communism. Having closely listened to Eastern European dissidents from communist one-party rule in the late 1980s, I could not help but marvel at both the sense of betrayal, yet also the sense of continued hope in finding a socially equitable and economically sustainable alternative—communist or not—to the sweeping victory of corporate capitalism. In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the hopes have since largely been crushed (I borrowed the terminology from East German activists when I entitled my book on this topic We Were the People). Despite Taylor’s detailed and evocative chronology of CP activities in North Carolina, where the members of the NCCP fit into this larger historical canvass remains less than clear. But Gregory Taylor is right: there is good reason—some would say increasingly pressing reason—to learn from past attempts to carve out a future in which ‘‘the entire population, not simply the plutocratic elite,’’ as Taylor summarizes his subjects’ objectives, ‘‘enjoy the full benefits of social justice’’ (p. 214).
This is an unpublished, undated and incomplete memoir that covers James S. Allen's tenure (1962-1... more This is an unpublished, undated and incomplete memoir that covers James S. Allen's tenure (1962-1972) as President and Editor-In-Chief of International Publishers (hereafter, IP), the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) publishing house; reminiscences of his on and off work at IP in previous decades, telling character sketches and anecdotes regarding IP's legendary founder, Alexander Trachtenberg, 1 in effect makes Allen's memoir into something like an informal, if incomplete, history of IP. Allen's commitment to professional standards, and pride in his accomplishments is clear, as he discusses both his strategic vision for IP and the nuts and bolts of its operations. Allen also addresses the sometimes difficult relationship between IP and the CPUSA, his relationship with William Z. Foster, and how IP was affected by and responded to the political and legal repression of the Communist movement, as well as to the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of the New Left. The memoir is part a book-length unpublished and undated autobiographical typescript, ''Visions and Revisions,'' in the James Allen Papers at the Tamiment Library (TAM 142; Box 5, folder 20, contains ''Marxist Publisher''), and is preceded herein, on a separate page, by a thank-you note, presumably from Allen's son Jesse, to Allen's good friend and comrade Gil Green, for his talk at a memorial service for Allen.
... Press, 2002), 230 pp. Freiheit und Offentlichkeit: Politischer Samisdat in der DDR 19851989;... more ... Press, 2002), 230 pp. Freiheit und Offentlichkeit: Politischer Samisdat in der DDR 19851989; eine Dokumenta-tion, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Hg. (Berlin: Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft, 2002), 597 pp. Historical Materialism and ...
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA co... more The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the formerly and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the communist parties of those countries. Anticommunism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, e.g. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/World Wide Web discussion lists, etc.) see the Historians of American Communism Discussion List
-. Dorothy Kenyan Papers: Lawyer, Writer, and Political Activist, 1888–1998. Bethesda, MD: a UPA ... more -. Dorothy Kenyan Papers: Lawyer, Writer, and Political Activist, 1888–1998. Bethesda, MD: a UPA collection from Lexis-Nexis, 2009. Includes her anti-communist activities. -. An Index to the Microfilm Edition of J. Edgar Hoover and Radicalism in Hollywood; Part 1, Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry, Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 2009. Reproduces the confidential letters of J. Edgar Hoover. FBI documents concerning radical artists, writers, actors and musicians investigated beginning in July 28, 1942 (Includes censored text). -. International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online 22 (2009).
... Marxist literary criticism, aide to Vito Marcantonio ... between George Meany and Walter Reut... more ... Marxist literary criticism, aide to Vito Marcantonio ... between George Meany and Walter Reuther [role of] Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown crucial agency of AfricanAmerican trade unionists A. Philip Randolph Maida Springer-Kemp and George McCray. Wilkins, Fanon ...
... Gonzalez, Gabriela, Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca: the Politics of Benevolence and Radi... more ... Gonzalez, Gabriela, Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca: the Politics of Benevolence and Radical Reform, Frontiers: A Journal of Women ... Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana, Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism, Public Culture 16:1 (2004), 129. ...
Some time ago I had a conversation with an esteemed colleague who suggested that American Communi... more Some time ago I had a conversation with an esteemed colleague who suggested that American Communist History’s style sheet requires the exclusive usage of the upper case for ‘‘C/communism,’’ ‘‘C/communist,’’ and ‘‘anti-C/communist’’ in reference to post-1917 communism (as distinguished from pre-1917 communism and communism as theory or desideratum). My colleague’s principal reason, aside from the typographical benefits of consistency and the highlighting of the difference between these senses of C/communism, was semantic, i.e. that post-1917 communism is a movement manifested in (upper case) political parties and nation states, not an abstraction, but rather a unique concrete ‘‘thing’’ whose P/proper ‘‘name’’ is ‘‘Communism.’’ In addition, my colleague maintained that in some instances the usage of the lower case in reference to post-1917 communism stems from an attempt, be it unconscious or deliberate, by those sympathetic to C/communism to distance themselves from a problematic legacy. This last point struck home. As an archivist-historian of C/communist (familial) provenance I have a complicated relationship with this inheritance, which gives rise to a mixture of feelings, including pride and dismay. In a recent contribution to American Communist History I used the lower case exclusively, although elsewhere I have used the upper case. I did so for typographical economy (why use two cases when one will suffice?) and to stress the linkage and continuity between ‘‘communism’’ and ‘‘Communism.’’ Was there perhaps an unconscious motivation – shame and unwillingness to ‘‘own’’ my contradictory heritage? While I thought the proposed style sheet requirement unduly prescriptive, I was forced to critically re-examine my heretofore unexamined assumption that some system of mixed C/capitalization is at once appropriate and helpful
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