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Cargando... Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louispor Keona K. Ervin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Just a really fascinating look, putting Black women and their organizing at the center, which I think really blows apart a lot of thinking around labor organizing and what it has looked like historically. My favorite chapter was the one about youth activism and the 'don't buy where you can't work' movement--just really fascinating stuff, and I think for me was the easiest to follow? (I read this in a less-than-desirable format so that had an impact, unfortunately, in how I was able to approach and understand what was going on--sometimes there were moving pieces I struggled to keep track of, for example.) Definitely usable in teaching, and so necessary in so many ways. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the Gateway City continued to experience significant urban decline as its population swelled and the area's industries stagnated. Over these decades, many African American citizens in the region found themselves struggling financially and fighting for access to profitable jobs and suitable working conditions. To combat ingrained racism, crippling levels of poverty, and sub-standard living conditions, black women worked together to form a community-based culture of resistance-fighting for employment, a living wage, dignity, representation, and political leadership. Gateway to Equality investigates black working-class women's struggle for economic justice from the rise of New Deal liberalism in the 1930s to the social upheavals of the 1960s. Keona K. Ervin explains that the conditions in twentieth-century St. Louis were conducive to the rise of this movement since the city's economy was based on industries that employed women, such as textiles and food processing. As part of the Great Migration, black women migrated to the city at a higher rate than their male counterparts, and labor and black freedom movements relied less on a charismatic, male leadership model. This made it possible for women to emerge as visible and influential leaders. In this study, Ervin presents a stunning account of the ways in which black working-class women fused racial and economic justice. By illustrating that their politics played an important role in defining urban political agendas, her work sheds light on an unexplored aspect of community activism and illuminates the complexities of the overlapping civil rights and labor movements during the first half of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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