Forging a laboring race : the African American worker in the Progressive Imagination /

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"How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the "Negro problem" was inextricably linked to the concurrent "labor problem," occasioning debates regarding blacks' role in the nation'...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lawrie, Paul R. D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Culture, labor, history.
Subjects:
1877-1999
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
African Americans > Employment > History > 20th century.
Working class African Americans > History > 20th century.
Labor > United States > History > 20th century.
Industrialization > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Histoire > 1877-1964.
Noirs américains > Travail > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travailleurs noirs américains > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Industrialisation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
African Americans.
African Americans > Employment.
Industrialization.
Labor.
Race relations.
Working class African Americans.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Imagining Negro Laboring Types in Fin de Siècle America; 1. Mortality as the Life Story of a People: Frederick L. Hoffman and Actuarial Narratives of African American Extinction, 1896-1915; 2. The Negro Is Plastic: The Department of Negro Economics, Sociology, and the Wartime Black Worker; 3. Measuring Men for the Work of War: Anthropometry, Race, and the Wartime Draft, 1917-1919; 4. Salvaging the Negro: Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Veterans, 1917-1924.
  • 5. A New Negro Type: The National Research Council and the Production of Racial Expertise in Postwar America, 1919-1929Epilogue: Invisible Men: The Afterlives of the Negro Problem in American Racial Thought; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author.

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