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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brown, Leslie, 1954-
Series:
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--North Carolina--Durham--History.
African Americans.
African Americans--North Carolina--Durham--Social conditions.
African American women--North Carolina--Durham--History.
African American women.
Sex role--North Carolina--Durham--History.
Sex role.
African Americans--North Carolina--Durham--Biography.
Community life--North Carolina--Durham--History.
Community life.
Social change--North Carolina--Durham--History.
Social change.
Social classes--North Carolina--Durham--History.
Social classes.
Durham (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Durham (N.C.).
Durham (N.C.)--Race relations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (468 p.)
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
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 Class 8 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
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
979-88-9313-206-9
979-88-908797-4-5
1-4696-0492-2
0-8078-7753-0
OCLC:
609863430

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