Upbuilding Black Durham : gender, class, and Black community development in the Jim Crow South /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Brown, Leslie, 1954-
Imprint:	Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subject:	African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History. African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Social conditions. African American women -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History. Sex role -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History. African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Biography. Community life -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History. Social change -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History. Social classes -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History. African American women. African Americans. African Americans -- Social conditions. Community life. Race relations. Sex role. Social change. Social classes. Social conditions. Durham (N.C.) -- Social conditions. Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations. North Carolina -- Durham. Electronic books. Biographies. History. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256243

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ISBN:	9780807877531 0807877530 9781469604923 1469604922 9780807831380 0807831387 9780807858356 0807858358
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	In the 1910s, both W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from eman.
Other form:	Print version: Brown, Leslie, 1954- Upbuilding Black Durham. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008

Table of Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Seek Out a Good Place: Making Decisions in Freedom; 2 Durham's Narrow Escape: Gendering Race Politics; 3 Many Important Particulars Are Far from Flattering: The Gender Dimensions of the ''Negro Problem''; 4 We Have Great Faith in Luck, but Infinitely More in Pluck: Gender and the Making of a New Black Elite; 5 We Need to Be as Close Friends as Possible: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Upbuilding; A section of photographs; 6 Helping to Win This War: Gender and Class on the Home Front.
7 Every Wise Woman Buildeth Her House: Gender and the Paradox of the Capital of the Black Middle Class8 There Should Be ... No Discrimination: Gender, Class, and Activism in the New Deal Era; 9 Plenty of Opposition Which Is Growing Daily: Gender, Generation, and the Long Civil Rights Movement; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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