Dockworker Power: Race & Activism in Durban & the San Francisco Bay Area-A Talk by Peter Cole

Historian Peter Cole discuses his book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area in this Zoom event presented by the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University and the Evanston Public Library, and co-sponsored by the Program of African Studies and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern.
Peter Cole is Professor of History at Western Illinois University and Research Associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the founder and co-director of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, a year-long initiative in 2019 that aimed to heighten the 1919 Chicago race riots in the city’s collective memory by engaging Chicagoans in public conversations about the legacy of the most violent week in Chicago history.
His previous books include Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (2007) and, as co-editor, Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (2017). Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (2018) won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and Cornell University’s ILR School.
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