| The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South Contributor(s): Jones, William P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252072294 ISBN-13: 9780252072291 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those worker have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and government documents, "The Tribe of Black Ulysses explores black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities (Elizabethtown, South Carolina, Chapman, Alabama, and Bogalusa, Louisiana). By restoring black lumber workers to the history of southern industrialization, William P. Jones reveals that industrial employment was not incompatible--"as previous historians have assume--"with the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined African American life in the Jim Crow South. At the same time, he complicates an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 331.639 |
| LCCN: 2004018189 |
| Series: Working Class in American History (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.04" W x 9.02" (0.93 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture. Yet little scholarship exists on these workers and their times. William P. Jones merges interviews with archival sources to explore black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in the southern sawmill communities of Elizabethtown, North Carolina; Chapman, Alabama; and Bogalusa, Louisiana. By placing black lumber workers within the history of southern industrialization, Jones reveals that industrial employment was another facet of the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined black life in the Jim Crow South. He also examines an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture. |
