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The tribe of black Ulysses : African American lumber workers in the Jim Crow south
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The tribe of black Ulysses : African American lumber workers in the Jim Crow south / William P. Jones.
ISBN
0252029798 (Cloth : alk. paper)
0252072294 (Paper : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xv, 235 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 29, 2005
Series
The working class in American history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-222) and index.
Contents
Introduction : re-thinking the myth of black Ulysses
Re-making a southern lumber mill world
Black families between farm and factory
Race, class and leisure in the industrial South
The new deal and the new tradition
Race, region, and the limits of industrial unionism
Black working-class politics in the postwar South
Conclusion : a dream deferred.
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