| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blacks in the diaspora |
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Contents |
1. Early Struggles and Community Building -- 2. The Demand for Black Labor, Migration, and the Emerging Black Industrial Working Class, 1915-1930 -- 3. The Role of the Detroit Urban League in the Community Building Process, 1916-1945 -- 4. Weathering the Storm -- 5. Racial Discrimination in Industrial Detroit: Preparing the Ground for Community Social Consciousness -- 6. Social Consciousness and Self-Help: The Heart and Soul of Community Building -- 7. Protest and Politics: Emerging Forms of Community Empowerment -- 8. Conflicting Strategies of Black Community Building: Unionization vs. Ford Corporate Paternalism, 1936-1941 |
| Summary |
"The process of black community building was not smooth or free of conflict. There was much trial and error and more than a little rancor between its chief builders and benefactors. Notwithstanding those impediments, by 1945 the black community in Detroit had developed into one of the major centers of black progress." "Richard W. Thomas begins his analysis of black community building in the key period 1915-1945 by examining the community's roots in nineteenth-century Detroit. He focuses on how industrial workers, social workers, ministers, politicians, protest leaders, business and professional people, housewives, youth, and community institutions and organizations all contributed to the process. Thomas's approach draws on, but differs from, studies that emphasize the ghetto and proletarianization in the black urban experience. Rather than singling out a few dominant aspects of that experience, Thomas employs a holistic perspective to present a fuller understanding of the creation of black community."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
African Americans History 20th century Michigan Detroit |
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Detroit (Mich.) History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-357) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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American Historical Association Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history, 1994 |
| SUBJECT |
Detroit Mich. gnd |
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African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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African Americans
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Schwarze
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Geschichte (1915-1945)
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Detroit (Mich.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002942
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Michigan -- Detroit
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Detroit, Mich.
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Schwärze
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
91026518 |
| ISBN |
0585211558 |
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9780585211558 |
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