Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

To Ask for an Equal Chance

African Americans in the Great Depression
Herausgeber: Moore, Jacqueline M; Mjagkij, Nina

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Produktbeschreibung

The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. This brief, engaging book covers the range of African Americans' experiences during the 1930s. Cheryl Lynn Greenberg explores employment issues, the New Deal's effect on African Americans, family and community changes, and how the coming of war affected the population. The book straddles the particular_with examinations of specific communities and experiences_and the general_with explorations of the broader effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political organizing.

Produktdetails

• The African American Experience Series
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780742551886
• ISBN-10: 0742551881
• Artikelnr.: 26333828

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: No Strangers to Hardship: Black Life before the Crash Chapter 2:
Last Hired, First Fired: Working through the Great Depression Chapter 3: Of
New Deals and Raw Deals Chapter 4: "Let Us Build": Political Organizing in
the Depression Era Chapter 5: Weary Blues: Black Communities and Black
Culture Epilogue: "Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half American'?" Documents
Bibliographic Essay