In recent months, I’ve put writing on the back burner and focused on plumbing the archives, both digital and physical. Two subjects have consumed my time: Debs’s solidarity efforts during the early years of the Mexican Revolution (the first major instance of his internationalism pre–World War I) and his late-life radicalization on the “race question” (long a racial egalitarian, in the last ten years of his life Debs’s words grew more strident and his position more uncompromising on US apartheid).
Debs, Race, and the Pullman Porters
Debs, Race, and the Pullman Porters
Debs, Race, and the Pullman Porters
In recent months, I’ve put writing on the back burner and focused on plumbing the archives, both digital and physical. Two subjects have consumed my time: Debs’s solidarity efforts during the early years of the Mexican Revolution (the first major instance of his internationalism pre–World War I) and his late-life radicalization on the “race question” (long a racial egalitarian, in the last ten years of his life Debs’s words grew more strident and his position more uncompromising on US apartheid).