- 176 pages
- English
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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
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Text Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Ambivalent Solidarity
- 2. A Negro Caucus
- 3. Communism and Civil Rights
- 4. The Triumph of Racial Liberalism
- 5. The Trade Union Leadership Council
- 6. Black-Power Caucuses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series Page