CLASS RACE & THE US SOUTH

Class, Race, and the US South is a Festschrift celebrating the life and work of the labor militant and political scientist Michael Goldfield.

The book features original contributions from the most prominent contemporary historical-materialist social scientists and historians. The collection’s uniting theme is that class, race, and the South are the most important mainsprings of American society. Combining labor history, southern history, and theoretical critiques of mainstream conceptualizations of racism, this work emphasizes the working class as the primary driver of both reactionary and potentially revolutionary change.

Cody R. Melcher is an assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University New Orleans, and an instructor in the prison education program at Rayburn Correctional Center in Angie, Louisiana. His published work focuses primarily on the intersection of race and class in American public opinion and political behaviour.

Olivier Maheo is an associate member of the Institut d’histoire du temps présent, University of Paris 8 / CNRS, France. He conducts research on the uses of the past and counter-narratives of race, focusing on African-American history.

Esther Cyna, is an associate professor of US history and society at the University of Versailles, Paris-Saclay, France. Her research examines racism in school finance in the US South from the nineteenth century to today.