Race against Liberalism
eBook - ePub

Race against Liberalism

Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Race against Liberalism

Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit

About this book

Race against Liberalism examines how black worker activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. David M. Lewis-Colman traces the substantive, long-standing disagreements between liberals and the black workers who embraced autonomous race-based action. As he shows, black autoworkers placed themselves at the center of Detroit's working-class politics and sought to forge a kind of working class unity that accommodated their interests as African Americans. The book covers the independent caucuses in the 1940s and the Trade Union Leadership Council in the 1950s; the black power movement and Revolutionary Union Movements of the mid-1960s; and the independent race-based activism of the 1970s that resulted in Coleman Young's 1973 election as the city's first black mayor.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Text Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Ambivalent Solidarity
  9. 2. A Negro Caucus
  10. 3. Communism and Civil Rights
  11. 4. The Triumph of Racial Liberalism
  12. 5. The Trade Union Leadership Council
  13. 6. Black-Power Caucuses
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Series Page