TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Richard Walter
TI  - Life for us is what we make it: building Black community in Detroit, 1915-1945 
T2  - Blacks in the diaspora
SN  - 0585211558
AV  - F574.D49 N484 1992eb
U1  - 977.4/3400496073 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Detroit
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - gnd
KW  - Geschichte (1915-1945)
KW  - swd
KW  - Regions & Countries - Americas
KW  - hilcc
KW  - History & Archaeology
KW  - United States Local History
KW  - Detroit (Mich.)
KW  - Detroit, Mich
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-357) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - "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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