Michael Billeaux-Martinez teaches sociology at Madison Area Technical College. His research interests include race and racism, class analysis, historical change, and social theory. His writing has appeared in Du Bois Review, Historical Materialism, and Labor: Studies in Working Class History. His current research examines the interac- tion between race and class formation through the history of interracial labour unionism in the North American Great Lakes maritime industries. [mbilleaux martinez@gmail.com]