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Cedric de Leon @Prof_deLeon

Professor of Sociology & Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Labor, Race, Politics

Joined February 2012
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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
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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
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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
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This Is Hell!@thisishellradio
29 Aug 2025
WIN a signed copy of @kcarterjackson's "We Refuse" (@SealPress) on Black resistance, or @Prof_deLeon's "Freedom Train" (@ucpress) on interracial labor solidarity at our Saturday, Sept. 6, Listener Appreciation Party at @CarysLounge. Doors open at 3PM. patreon.com/posts/win-power-…

WIN! The Power to Refuse and Worker Solidarity | This Is Hell!

Kellie Carter Jackson fucking rocks. If you have nto heard our past interviews with her, go to thisishell.com and search on her name. Fuck

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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

Freedom Train by Cedric De Leon - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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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
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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
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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
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Paige Hanson@Paige_Hanson1
25 Jan 2025
Check out my video published for @masslivenews! Huge shoutouts to @RyleeDa54805330 @LalehPanahi (my partners-in-crime), @stevejfox, @Prof_deLeon and @Digital_Nicole 🤗 youtu.be/Ad-swHS9UPk

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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
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For those in the DC area, please come to my book talk at Georgetown Law School! @ucpress @NaomiUCPress
WorkersRightsInstitute@WorkersRtsInst
16 Jan 2025
Join us for a book talk with @Prof_deLeon, Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, on 1/23/25 at 2pm. RSVP here: bit.ly/4jgKMUd
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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

Freedom Train by Cedric De Leon - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu
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Cedric de Leon retweeted
Work in Progress@WIPsociology
12 Nov 2024
Why did interracial solidarity fail to gain traction in postbellum organized labor? Read more by Venus Green (@UMassSociology) and Cedric de Leon (@Prof_deLeon) at: wipsociology.org/2024/11/11/…
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ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements@asa_labor
11 Nov 2024
Check out our section member @Prof_deLeon's recent contribution to the Work in Progress blog entitled Anti-Blackness and the Historical Limits of Progressive Trade Unionism! wipsociology.org/2024/11/11/…
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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/…
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Letter to the editor of @insidehighered on McGill University’s effort to bust their faculty union @eidlin insidehighered.com/opinion/l…

Faculty unions are essential to the higher ed mission. And they're under threat.

Faculty unions at McGill university say they face similar pushback from university administrators as graduate workers at Boston University

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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
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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
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The Society Pages@TheSocietyPages
18 Jul 2024
Are you thinking about how to best handle 2024 politics in your Fall Sociology classes? @FirstPublics has you covered with an upcoming Webinar on Wed, Aug 21st from 12:00-1:30 EST with @edwinackerman, @bhbradlow, @Prof_deLeon, & Johnnie Lotesta. RSVP: bit.ly/3yaUPr2
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Venus Throw@OneVenusThrow
8 Jun 2024
US complicity in #Israel’s brutal campaign against #Gaza together with fears about economic insecurity may further fragment the multiracial coalition that the Dems have long taken for granted. Disaffected voters may stay home on election day.. @Prof_deLeon jacobin.com/2024/06/democrat…
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