| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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7 Every Wise Woman Buildeth Her House: Gender and the Paradox of the Capital of the Black Middle Class8 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. |
| Summary |
In the 1910s, both W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from eman. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History.
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African Americans. |
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North Carolina -- Durham. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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African American women -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History.
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African American women. |
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Sex role -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History.
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Sex role. |
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African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Biography.
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Community life -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History.
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Community life. |
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Social change -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History.
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Social change. |
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Social classes -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History.
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Social classes. |
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Durham (N.C.) -- Social conditions.
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Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Leslie, 1954- Upbuilding Black Durham. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008008444 |
| ISBN |
9780807877531 (electronic book) |
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0807877530 (electronic book) |
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9781469604923 (electronic book) |
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1469604922 (electronic book) |
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9780807831380 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807831387 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807858356 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807858358 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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