Forging a Laboring Race : : The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination / / Paul R.D. Lawrie.
Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the “Negro problem” was inextricably linked to the concurrent “labor problem,” occasionin...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture, Labor, History ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Mortality as the Life Story of a People: Frederick L. Hoffman and Actuarial Narratives of African American Extinction, 1896–1915
- 2. The Negro Is Plastic: The Department of Negro Economics, Sociology, and the Wartime Black Worker
- 3. Measuring Men for the Work of War: Anthropometry, Race, and the Wartime Draft, 1917–1919
- 4. Salvaging the Negro: Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Veterans, 1917–1924
- 5. A New Negro Type: The National Research Council and the Production of Racial Expertise in Postwar America, 1919–1929
- Epilogue: Invisible Men: The Afterlives of the Negro Problem in American Racial Thought
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author