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Author | : Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807862843 |
Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with migrants as well as on archival and other written records, Abiding Courage examines the experiences of the African American women who migrated west and built communities there. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo vividly shows how women made the transition from southern domestic and field work to jobs in an industrial, wartime economy. At the same time, they were struggling to keep their families together, establishing new households, and creating community-sustaining networks and institutions. While white women shouldered the double burden of wage labor and housework, black women faced even greater challenges: finding houses and schools, locating churches and medical services, and contending with racism. By focusing on women, Lemke-Santangelo provides new perspectives on where and how social change takes place and how community is established and maintained.
Author | : Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo |
Publisher | : Haworth Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807845639 |
Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Author | : Ben Quash |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441151117 |
Abide in me as I abide in you. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.
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Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Mary Holland McNeish Kinkaid |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Chickasaw Indians |
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Author | : Carl Abbott |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826333141 |
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change. From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the binational metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary entry points for migration and components of a global economy reminds us that it is cities that "won the West." And today, as cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North America in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Josh Sides |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520939868 |
In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
Author | : Sherry Thomas |
Publisher | : Sherry Thomas |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1631280309 |
From USA Today-bestselling author Sherry Thomas comes this sublime love story set in the far future, and perhaps a different universe altogether… On the remote planet of Pax Cara lies the greatest secret of the universe. Once every generation, the inhabitants must offer up an exceptional young person—the Chosen One--who sacrifices his or her own life for the sake of that secret, and the planet itself. But Vitalis, the current Chosen One, is desperate to break free of the yoke of destiny. An unexpected invitation to an aristocratic courtship summit seems to be the perfect opportunity for her escape. As soon as she arrives, however, she receives a proposal of marriage from the most eligible prince in existence. Eleian of Terra Illustrata can have any woman he wants. Why has he set his sight on Vitalis, who, unless she manages to flee, will die in sixteen standard days? Is it as simple as he declares, “To know you as I’ve always wanted to, but never had the chance?” Or is he hiding an ulterior motive, one that could put her plans, her life, and her heart in jeopardy? And can Vitalis truly say no to the man she has secretly loved all her life? This is a novella of 32,000 words. Tags: Futuristic romance, royal romance, supernatural romance, multicultural and interracial romance, The Chosen One, interplanetary romance
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Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Labor |
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Author | : Margaret D. Jacobs |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803211007 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations? larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands. White Mother to a Dark Racetakes the study of indigenous education and acculturation in new directions in its examination of the key roles white women played in these policies of indigenous child-removal. Government officials, missionaries, and reformers justified the removal of indigenous children in particularly gendered ways by focusing on the supposed deficiencies of indigenous mothers, the alleged barbarity of indigenous men, and the lack of a patriarchal nuclear family. Often they deemed white women the most appropriate agents to carry out these child-removal policies. Inspired by the maternalist movement of the era, many white women were eager to serve as surrogate mothers to indigenous children and maneuvered to influence public policy affecting indigenous people. Although some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became hopelessly ensnared in this insidious colonial policy.