Western Mass! The UMass Amherst Labor Center is hosting a joint book talk featuring Eric Blanc & me Mon, Sept 29 @ 4pm in the Old Chapel. Amherst Books will have copies available for purchase. Register w QR code below or by visiting lp.constantcontactpages.com/… @ucpress @NaomiUCPress

Excited to announce a joint book talk this Fri, Sept 12, on the theme "Strategies for Revitalizing Labor" with Eric Blanc.Join us in person at the Janice H. Levin Building, 94 Rockefeller Rd in Piscataway, NJ or on Zoom at: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi… @ucpress @NaomiUCPress

Join me at the "Solidarity is a Verb" panel at Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago, Plymouth Court Stage, Sat, Sept 6 at 12 noon where I'll discuss my new book, "Freedom Train." Mark your calendars and bring a friend! Full event schedule here: printersrowlitfest.org/sched… @ucpress

To quote the movie Matewan: "Any union that keeps a worker out on account of his race ain't a union. It's a goddam club." This Labor Day, read about the brave people who desegregated the labor movement. Buy my book "Freedom Train": ucpress.edu/books/freedom-tr…. @ucpress @NaomiUCPress

Join me at UCLA on Wed, May 7@1pm in Bunche 6272 to discuss my book, Freedom Train. Let's explore the origins of interracial solidarity together! Register at bit.ly/LS-deleon. Thx to ⁦@kevankharris⁩ ⁦@uclairle⁩ ⁦@SociologyUcla⁩ ⁦@UCLAHist⁩

My new book, Freedom Train, on the role of Black workers in desegregating the US labor movement, drops today! 1. Order now. Code UCPSAVE30 to get 30% off from @ucpress 2. Share on social media 3. Post an Amazon review 4. Request the book at your local library @NaomiUCPress

New Haven friends: I’ll be back from sabbatical for a one day engagement at Yale to present on my new book, Freedom Train. The talk is at 12 noon Wed, March 5 at 493 College St, Room 106. Hope to see you there! ⁦⁦@ucpress⁩ ⁦⁦@NaomiUCPress⁩ ⁦⁦@YaleSoc⁩

Happy MLK Day! If you are in the DC area, please come to my talk, "Labor, Slavery & Antiblackness" at the Georgetown Law School Workers' Rights Institute this Thurs, Jan 23 @ 2pm, reception to follow. Many thanks to @ProfJamillahBW @ucpress @NaomiUCPress

For those in the DC area, please come to my book talk at Georgetown Law School! @ucpress @NaomiUCPress

Pre-order my new book Freedom Train! Most accounts of interracial labor solidarity are about white progressives. In Freedom Train I center the role of Black activists in desegregating American unions. Get 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 ucpress.edu/books/freedom-tr… @ucpress @NaomiUCPress

Proud to co-author this essay with @UMassSociology PhD student Venus Green in the @WIPsociology blog: “Anti-Blackness and the Historical Limits of Progressive Trade Unionism” - wipsociology.org/2024/11/11/…

Letter to the editor of @insidehighered on McGill University’s effort to bust their faculty union @eidlin insidehighered.com/opinion/l…

Proud to share the full text of my paper w/ @UMassSociology student Venus Green in @SREJournal "The Ruse of Recognition: Black Labor in the Afterlife of Slavery" @ASA_SREM academia.edu/123328094/The_R… via @academia

Pleased to share the text of my paper w/ fmr @UMassSociology student @AaronFoote_ in @CiCoJournal "Origins of the Flint Water Crisis: Uneven Development, Urban Political Ecology, and Racial Capitalism" featuring the work of @DocDantzler academia.edu/123328569/Origi… via @academia