Hundreds of newspapers and magazines published by socialists; anarchists; and the Industrial Workers of the World in the years before World War I offered sharp critiques of the emerging corporate state that remain relevant in light of gaping twenty-first-century social inequity. Black; White; and Red All Over offers the first comprehensive narrative to explore the central role that a broad swathe of social movement media played in radical movements; stirring millions of Americans a century ago. Author Linda J. Lumsden mines more than a dozen diverse radical periodicals―including Progressive Woman; Industrial Worker; Wilshire’s; the Messenger; Mother Earth; Appeal to Reason; New York Call; and International Socialist Review―to demonstrate how they served anarchists; socialists; and industrial unionists in their quest to topple capitalism and create their varied visions of a cooperative commonwealth. The book argues that these subversive periodicals were quintessentially American: individualist; independent; socialminded; egalitarian; defiant; and celebratory of freedom. Even their call for revolution resounded from the roots of the American experience. Black; White; and Red All Over explores socialist periodicals in the agrarian heartland; views socialists’ attempts to provide alternatives to urban dailies; explores the radical press crusade to champion workers; analyzes the role anarchist periodicals played in their pioneering battles for a free press; free speech; and free love; surveys socialism in the black press; and details the federal government’s wartime campaign to suppress the radical press. It draws parallels with Occupy Wall Street’s social media movement. Despite the distance from the typewriter to Twitter; Lumsden concludes that twenty-first-century social movement media perform nearly the same function as did their nearly forgotten predecessors.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Very good book on immigrants in the US militaryBy Peter L. BelmonteThis is military and social history at its finest. Ford brings to light a little known aspect of the World War: US immigrants and their role. Progressive era reforms and ideas played a big role in handling the hundreds of thousands of foreign-born men caught up in the American draft. Many of these men didn't leave memoirs or perhaps even letters; this book at least gives them some voice.Highly recommended.Peter L. BelmonteDays of Perfect Hell: The U.S. 26th Infantry Regiment in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive; October-November 1918Italian Americans in World War II (IL) (Voices of America)5 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Decontextualized HistoryBy A CustomerAlthough the author presents some interesting (and surprising) statistics in this work; she totally divorces the experience of foreign-born soldiers (and the U.S. Armed Forces' experience with them) during World War I from the profoundly affecting events attending the process of immigration itself--the decision to move; the voyage; the process of settling in the United States; the ethnic enclaves; and the immigrant way of life in the United States. Nor does the author consider; more that superficially; the soldiers' perception of the post-war Red Scare and the 1924 Immigration Acts that essentially stopped immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe. All of these aspects of immigration were life-altering events that shaped the immigrant experience (and; subsequently; immigrants' experiences as soldiers and veterans); but there is little evidence and less consideration of those effects in this work. Decontextualizing the subject of the book results in a work that presents a snapshot of a moment in time--blurred and indistinct; with one figure barely distinguishable from another--but no more than that.The book reads like a poorly-written; meandering thesis. The author presents essentially no research questions and; therefore; no answers. It is a fairly interesting; easy read (despite the awkward prose and abundance of typographical errors); and deserves some commendation for its documentation of pertinent statistical information; however; if you are looking for a book that takes a long; comprehensive; contextualized view of the immigrant experience during World War I; choose Christopher Sterba's excellent book "Good Americans" instead.7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Foreign-Born DoughboysBy J.D. KeeneIn Americans All; Ford has successfully challenged longstanding assumptions about the immigrant experience during World War I and documented a key aspect of the army's modernization during the war. Nearly half a million foreign-born soldiers of forty-six different nationalities served in the wartime army. With one in five soldiers foreign-born; including many who did not speak English; the army faced a serious challenge training these men for battle. In marked contrast to the conformity demanded of foreign-born civilians on the homefront; Ford's meticulous research in official army records reveals that army officials demonstrated a remarkable sensitivity and respect for Old World cultures when formulating the training and recreational regimes of foreign-born troops. This is a well-written and important book whose blending of military and social history will interest readers interested in the military; the immigrant experience and the First World War.
