The Tribe of Black Ulysses : African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South Paperback / softback
by William P. Jones
Part of the Working Class in American History series
Paperback / softback
Description
The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture.
Yet little scholarship exists on these workers and their times. William P.
Jones merges interviews with archival sources to explore black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in the southern sawmill communities of Elizabethtown, North Carolina; Chapman, Alabama; and Bogalusa, Louisiana.
By placing black lumber workers within the history of southern industrialization, Jones reveals that industrial employment was another facet of the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined black life in the Jim Crow South.
He also examines an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:25/03/2005
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- ISBN:9780252072291
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:25/03/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252072291
