Robert M. Zecker is a professor of history at Saint Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he teaches courses in race, immigration, social movements, and U.S. history. His research includes immigration, radicalism and the popular culture of immigrants on the left. He is the author of five books, including “A Road to Peace and Freedom”: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 (Temple University Press.) He has also contributed book chapters to eight edited volumes, most recently the chapter, “Spotlight on Jim Crow”: Radical Immigrant Papers Cover Race and Civil Rights,” in Immigration and Exile: The Foreign-Language Press in the U.K. and U.S., recently published by Bloomsbury. He has published numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of American Ethnic History, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Oral History Review, Ethnic Forum, American Studies, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Popular Culture, and American Communist History. Dr. Zecker has presented his research at conferences in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Holland, Greece, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Finland, Turkey, and Ireland. His current research includes a book manuscript on Communist Party workers’ schools. Before entering the academic racket, Bob was an ink-stained wretch foisting journalism on an unsuspecting public in his native New Jersey.