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