The segregated scholars : Black social scientists and the creation of Black labor studies, 1890-1950 / Francille Rusan Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Francille Rusan, 1947-

Series:

Carter G. Woodson Institute series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Employment--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

African Americans--Segregation.

History.

Social scientists--Biography.

Social scientists.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans--Segregation--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Race relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 356 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Summary:

Offers a "collective biography" of successive cohorts of early twentieth century black labor historians and social scientists.

Contents:

"To make a name in science

and thus to raise my race" : W.E.B. DuBois and the origins of Black labor studies

Creating a cadre of segregated scholars, 1898-1912

Black women, social science, and social reform from the turn of the century to the great migration

Mapping the great migration : Black social scientists, social research, and social action, 1910-1930

"A new day for the colored woman worker"? : recovering the labor studies of Black female social scientists during the great migration

"A corporal's guard" for Negro workers : Black labor scholars during the New Deal and the Second World War, 1930-1950.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-343) and index.

ISBN:

0813925509

9780813925509

OCLC:

71241904

Publisher Number:

9780813925509