America's Johannesburg : industrialization and racial transformation in Birmingham /

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"In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama. During the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham gained national and international attention as a center of activity and unrest during the civil rights movement. Racially motivated bombings of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Bobby M., 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2019.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Series:Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 46.
Subjects:
African Americans > Alabama > Birmingham > Social conditions.
African Americans > Alabama > Birmingham > Economic conditions.
Industrialization > Alabama > Birmingham > History.
Capitalism > Social aspects > Alabama > Birmingham > History.
Noirs américains > Alabama > Birmingham > Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains > Alabama > Birmingham > Conditions économiques.
Industrialisation > Alabama > Birmingham > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Economic history.
Industrialization.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Social conditions.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Economic conditions.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations.
Alabama > Birmingham.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: race and capitalist development
  • The origin of racism: discursive and material practices
  • The state's role in sustaining race-connected practices
  • Capital restructuring and the transformation of race
  • The slave mode of production
  • An extensive regime of accumulation based on slave labor
  • Reconstruction
  • From slave to free black labor
  • Development of the Birmingham regime
  • Industrialization with inexpensive labor
  • Noncompetitive labor segmentation and laissez-faire race relations
  • Accommodating the racial order: the rise of institutionalized racism
  • Scientific management and the growth of Black/White competition
  • The growth of corporate power: the emergence of Fordism
  • The Great Depression and the transformation of the planter regime
  • The New Deal and Blacks
  • The southern shift of Fordism and entrepreneurial regimes.

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