num_pages: 256
description: The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture. Yet little scholarship exists on these workers and their times.  William P. Jones merges interviews with archival sources to explore black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in the southern sawmill communities of Elizabethtown, North Carolina; Chapman, Alabama; and Bogalusa, Louisiana. By placing black lumber workers within the history of southern industrialization, Jones reveals that industrial employment was another facet of the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined black life in the Jim Crow South. He also examines an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture.
language: English
title: The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
titlecomplete: The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (Working Class in American History)
genres: Race, American History, History, Labor
ratings_count: 22
series: The Working Class in American History
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: H.L. Mitchell Award
publisher: University of Illinois Press