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Life for us is what we make it : building Black community in Detroit, 1915-1945 / Richard W. Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Blacks in the diasporaPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585211558
  • 9780585211558
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life for us is what we make it.DDC classification:
  • 977.4/3400496073 20
LOC classification:
  • F574.D49 N484 1992eb
Other classification:
  • NR 8955
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Early Struggles and Community Building -- 2. The Demand for Black Labor, Migration, and the Emerging Black Industrial Working Class, 1915-1930 -- 3. The Role of the Detroit Urban League in the Community Building Process, 1916-1945 -- 4. Weathering the Storm -- 5. Racial Discrimination in Industrial Detroit: Preparing the Ground for Community Social Consciousness -- 6. Social Consciousness and Self-Help: The Heart and Soul of Community Building -- 7. Protest and Politics: Emerging Forms of Community Empowerment -- 8. Conflicting Strategies of Black Community Building: Unionization vs. Ford Corporate Paternalism, 1936-1941.
Action note:
  • digitized 2011 committed to preserve
Awards:
  • American Historical Association Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history, 1994.
Review: "The process of black community building was not smooth or free of conflict. There was much trial and error and more than a little rancor between its chief builders and benefactors. Notwithstanding those impediments, by 1945 the black community in Detroit had developed into one of the major centers of black progress." "Richard W. Thomas begins his analysis of black community building in the key period 1915-1945 by examining the community's roots in nineteenth-century Detroit. He focuses on how industrial workers, social workers, ministers, politicians, protest leaders, business and professional people, housewives, youth, and community institutions and organizations all contributed to the process. Thomas's approach draws on, but differs from, studies that emphasize the ghetto and proletarianization in the black urban experience. Rather than singling out a few dominant aspects of that experience, Thomas employs a holistic perspective to present a fuller understanding of the creation of black community."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-357) and index.

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American Historical Association Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history, 1994.

1. Early Struggles and Community Building -- 2. The Demand for Black Labor, Migration, and the Emerging Black Industrial Working Class, 1915-1930 -- 3. The Role of the Detroit Urban League in the Community Building Process, 1916-1945 -- 4. Weathering the Storm -- 5. Racial Discrimination in Industrial Detroit: Preparing the Ground for Community Social Consciousness -- 6. Social Consciousness and Self-Help: The Heart and Soul of Community Building -- 7. Protest and Politics: Emerging Forms of Community Empowerment -- 8. Conflicting Strategies of Black Community Building: Unionization vs. Ford Corporate Paternalism, 1936-1941.

"The process of black community building was not smooth or free of conflict. There was much trial and error and more than a little rancor between its chief builders and benefactors. Notwithstanding those impediments, by 1945 the black community in Detroit had developed into one of the major centers of black progress." "Richard W. Thomas begins his analysis of black community building in the key period 1915-1945 by examining the community's roots in nineteenth-century Detroit. He focuses on how industrial workers, social workers, ministers, politicians, protest leaders, business and professional people, housewives, youth, and community institutions and organizations all contributed to the process. Thomas's approach draws on, but differs from, studies that emphasize the ghetto and proletarianization in the black urban experience. Rather than singling out a few dominant aspects of that experience, Thomas employs a holistic perspective to present a fuller understanding of the creation of black community."--Jacket.

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