Race against Liberalism
Subtitle: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 7, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780252033001
Subjects: Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Social Science / African-American Studies; African American automobile industry workers; African American labor union members; Detroit; History; Labor unions; Michigan; Racism
Description: "Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit examines how black workers' activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. Tracing substantive, long-standing disagreements between liberals and black workers who embraced autonomous race-based action, David M. Lewis-Colman shows how black autoworkers placed themselves at the center of Detroit's working-class politics and sought to forge a kind of working-class unity that accommodated their interests as African Americans."--BOOK JACKET.