Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Fence Cutters, Sedicioso, and First-Class Citizens: Mexican Radicalism in America Douglas Monroy 2. The German Immigrant Left in the United States Stan Nadel 3. Themes in American Jewish Radicalism Paul Buhle 4. The Italian-American Left: Transnationalism and the Quest for unity Michael Miller Topp 5. The Polish-American Left Mary E. Cygan 6. The Ukrainian Immigrant Left in the United States, 1880--1950 Maria Woroby 7. Greek-American Radicalism: The Twentieth Century Dan Georgakas 8. The Arab-American Left Michael W. Suleiman 9. The Hidden World of Asian Immigrant Radicalism Robert G. Lee 10. Haitian Life in New York and the Haitian-American Left Carole Charles 11. "El Salvador Is Spanish for Vietnam": A New Immigrant Left and the Politics of Solidarity Van Gosse Contributors Name Index Subject Index

About the Author

Paul Buhle directs the Oral History of the American Left project, Tamiment Library, New York University, and has written or edited 21 books, including Marxism in the United States; Encyclopedia of the American Left; The American Radical; and C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary. Dan Georgakas teaches in the Labor Education and Advancement Project of Queens College. He is author of Greek America at Work; associate editor of the newspaper The GreekAmerican; and coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left and New Directions in Greek American Studies.

Reviews

"What I like most about this book is its unusual coverage of different ethnic and racial groups. Many of the essays have a transnational perspective on immigrant political culture. Most of them have important material on the contribution of women immigrant radicals and the tension between these women and their male counterparts." --Robert Asher, University of Connecticut "I like very much that this book covers immigrant life and politics over the long run of U.S. history rather than focusing on either the past or the present. Essays on immigrant workers inevitably shed light on nationalism, transnationalism, internationalism, and their significance for class analysis. The foreign-language labor and Left press has been surveyed, and evaluated, but this rich source has not yet been mined extensively." -- Donna Gabaccia, University of North Carolina at Charlotte