Remaking Respectability African American Women in Interwar Detroit

Name: Remaking Respectability African American Women in Interwar Detroit
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ISBN: 9780807849668

ISBN-10: 0807849669

ISBN-13: 9780807849668

Edition: 2001

Authors: Victoria W. Wolcott

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have been the male industrial workers who labored on the city's automobile assembly lines. African American women have largely been absent from traditional narratives of the Great Migration because they were excluded from industrial work. By placing these women at the center of her study, Victoria Wolcott reveals their vital role in shaping life in interwar Detroit. Wolcott takes us into the…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Female Uplift Ideology, the Politics of Class, and Resettlement in Detroit



Reform and Public Displays of Respectability in Great Migration Detroit



The Informal Economy, Leisure Workers, and Economic Nationalism in the 1920s



Neighborhood Expansion and the Decline of Bourgeois Respectability in the 1920s



Economic Self-Help and Black Nationalism in the Great Depression



Grassroots Activism, New Deal Policies, and the Transformation of African American Reform in the 1930s


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index