Black Folk The Roots of the Black Working Class

Blair L.M. Kelley, Anika Noni Rose

eAudio - 2023

There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. Spanning two hundred years-from one of Kelley's earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic-Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the ...late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking jobs white people didn't want and confined to segregated neighborhoods, Black workers found community in intimate spaces, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen, where multiple...

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Published
HighBridge
Language
English
Main Authors
Blair L.M. Kelley, Anika Noni Rose
Online Access
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size260 GB
Parts11
ISBN9781696612609
Release Date9/19/2023
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size260 GB
ISBN9781696612609
Release Date9/19/2023