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04531aam a2200457 i 4500 001 8E17402017D411EEB984481F40ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230701010016 008 221001s2023 nyua b 001 0deng d 020 $a 9781631496554 020 $a 1631496557 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a HD8081.A65 $b K45 2023 082 04 $a 331.6396073 $2 23 100 1 $a Kelley, Blair Murphy, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Black folk : $b the roots of the Black working class / $c Blair LM Kelley. 250 $a First edtion. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Liveright Publishing Corporations, $c [2023] 300 $a 338 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-321) and index. 505 0 $a Solicitor -- Henry, a blacksmith -- Sarah at home, working on her own account -- Resistant washerwomen -- The Jeremiad of the porter -- Minnie and Bruce -- The maids of the migration -- Everything sufficient for a good life -- Conclusion: Brunell. 520 $a "An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. Spanning two hundred years--from one of Kelley's earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic--Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking jobs white people didn't want and confined to segregated neighborhoods, Black workers found community in intimate spaces, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen, where multiple generations labored from dawn to dusk, talking and laughing in a space free of white supervision and largely beyond white knowledge. As millions of Black people left the violence of the American South for the promise of a better life in the North and West, these networks of resistance and joy sustained early arrivals and newcomers alike and laid the groundwork for organizing for better jobs, better pay, and equal rights. As her narrative moves from Georgia to Philadelphia, Florida to Chicago, Texas to Oakland, Kelley treats Black workers not just as laborers, or members of a class, or activists, but as people whose daily experiences mattered--to themselves, to their communities, and to a nation that denied that basic fact. Through affecting portraits of her great-grandfather, a sharecropper named Solicitor, and her grandmother, Brunell, who worked for more than a decade as a domestic maid, Kelley captures, in intimate detail, how generation after generation of labor was required to improve, and at times maintain, her family's status. Yet her family, like so many others, was always animated by a vision of a better future. The church yards, factory floors, railcars, and postal sorting facilities where Black people worked were sites of possibility, and, as Kelley suggests, Amazon package processing centers, supermarkets, and nursing homes can be the same today. With the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future."--Publisher. 650 0 $a Working class African Americans $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Economic conditions. 650 0 $a Labor $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $x History. 600 10 $a Kelley, Blair Murphy, $d 1973- $x Family. 941 $a 9 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231103011612.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20231031011245.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230913010354.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230802012510.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20230711054239.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011651.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230706012755.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230706010633.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230701010058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E17402017D411EEB984481F40ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search