Upbuilding Black Durham Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South

Name: Upbuilding Black Durham Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
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ISBN: 9780807858356

ISBN-10: 0807858358

ISBN-13: 9780807858356

Edition: 2008

Authors: Leslie Brown

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In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freedpeople and their descendants struggled among themselves and with…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction



Seek Out a Good Place: Making Decisions in Freedom



Durham's Narrow Escape: Gendering Race Politics



Many Important Particulars Are Far from Flattering: The Gender Dimensions of the "Negro Problem"



We Have Great Faith in Luck, but Infinitely More in Pluck: Gender and the Making of a New Black Elite



We Need to Be as Close Friends as Possible: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Upbuilding



Helping to Win This War: Gender and Class on the Home Front



Every Wise Woman Buildeth Her House: Gender and the Paradox of the Capital of the Black Middle Class



There Should Be ... No Discrimination: Gender, Class, and Activism in the New Deal Era



Plenty of Opposition Which Is Growing Daily: Gender, Generation, and the Long Civil Rights Movement


Conclusion


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index