Culture, Labor, History – serie
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21 produkter
Steel Barrio
The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940
Häftad, 2013
396 kr
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Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central …
Working the Diaspora
The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
Inbunden, 2010
1040 kr
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From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In …
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Inbunden, 2017
1091 kr
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Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept …
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Häftad, 2017
374 kr
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Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept …
Working the Diaspora
The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
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From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In …
Fueling the Gilded Age
Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country
Inbunden, 2014
706 kr
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If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that …
Class Unknown
Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present
Inbunden, 2012
997 kr
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How well-meaning intellectuals helped develop our understanding of the American underclassSince the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and …
Class Unknown
Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present
Häftad, 2012
439 kr
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How well-meaning intellectuals helped develop our understanding of the American underclassSince the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and …
Brokering Servitude
Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor During the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Andrew Urban
Inbunden, 2017
555 kr
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The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 1920s, household domestic service was the single largest employer of women in the United States, and, in California, a pivotal occupation for male Chinese …
Steel Barrio
The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940
Inbunden, 2013
1040 kr
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Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central …
Reframing Randolph
Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of a. Philip Randolph
Av Andrew E. Kersten, Clarence Lang
Inbunden, 2015
778 kr
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Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodimentof America's multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for BlackAmerica, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights …
Great Conspiracy Against Our Race
Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century
Inbunden, 2014
1040 kr
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In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and "swarthy" race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Racial history has always been the thorn in …
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?
Community Politics and Grassroots Activism During the New Negro Era
Av Shannon King
Inbunden, 2015
1263 kr
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2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Outstanding Book in Africana Studies presented by the National Council for Black Studies Demonstrates how Harlemite's dynamic fight for their rights and neighborhood raised the black community's racial …
Forging a Laboring Race
The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination
Häftad, 2018
358 kr
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Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience"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," …
Trotskyists on Trial
Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR
Inbunden, 2016
647 kr
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Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or …
Great Conspiracy Against Our Race
Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century
Häftad, 2017
354 kr
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In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and "swarthy" race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Racial history has always been the thorn in …
Making the Empire Work
Labor and United States Imperialism
Av Daniel E. Bender, Jana K. Lipman
Häftad, 2015
329 kr
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Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men …
Forging a Laboring Race
The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination
Inbunden, 2016
1013 kr
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Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience"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," …
Health in the City
Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915–1930
Av Tanya Hart
Inbunden, 2015
508 kr
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Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis …
Making the Empire Work
Labor and United States Imperialism
Av Daniel E. Bender, Jana K. Lipman
Inbunden, 2015
1245 kr
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Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men …
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?
Community Politics and Grassroots Activism During the New Negro Era
Av Shannon King
Häftad, 2017
398 kr
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2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Outstanding Book in Africana Studies presented by the National Council for Black Studies Demonstrates how Harlemite's dynamic fight for their rights and neighborhood raised the black community's racial …
