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- Book Title
- Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicagos Neighborhood Politics f
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780226130699
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Social Science, History
- Publication Name
- Crucibles of Black Empowerment : Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Subject
- American Government / Local, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Series
- Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
022613069X
ISBN-13
9780226130699
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038577744
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Crucibles of Black Empowerment : Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
Publication Year
2014
Subject
American Government / Local, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, History
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2013-043971
Dewey Edition
23
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Crucibles of Black Empowerment successfully explores the motivations and sources of how community-based protest politics counterbalanced the apathy and connivance of establishment politics and politicians over one half-century in efforts aimed at improving black life in Chicago. The activists who made this reality are both known and unknown, and include Rev. Addie Wyatt, Ida B. Wells, and Lovelyn Evans in labor, social service, and employment, along with Tim Black, Sidney Williams, Ed 'the Iron Master' Wright, and Ed Doty in civil rights, politics, and labor., Jeffrey Helgeson's Crucibles of Black Empowerment is a sweeping, compelling, and original contribution to Chicago's rich African American history that addresses a wide range of subjects: individual and collective aspirations, the Second Great Migration, neighborhood activism, employment and housing discrimination, and political mobilizations in the mid-20th century, among other things. Grounded in exhaustive research, Helgeson's study meticulously reconstructs the contours of a liberal political culture in black Chicago that highlighted individual opportunity, pursued interracial coalitions, and advocated for governmental action to produce social change. On many levels this is a model study of black community politics and protest that should be required reading for anyone interested in Chicago's--and the country's--troubled racial past., Jeffrey Helgeson's Crucibles of Black Empowerment is a sweeping, compelling, and original contribution to Chicago's rich African American history that addresses a wide range of subjects: individual and collective aspirations, the Second Great Migration, neighborhood activism, employment and housing discrimination, and political mobilizations in the mid-20th century, among other things. Grounded in exhaustive research, Helgeson's study meticulously reconstructs the contours of a liberal political culture in black Chicago that highlighted individual opportunity, pursued interracial coalitions, and advocated for governmental action to produce social change. On many levels this is a model study of black community politics and protest that should be required reading for anyone interested in Chicago's-and the country's-troubled racial past., " Crucibles of Black Empowerment successfully explores the motivations and sources of how community-based protest politics counterbalanced the apathy and connivance of establishment politics and politicians over one-half century in efforts aimed at improving black life in Chicago. Manifested in various organizational structures and forms, ranging from labor unions, block clubs, ad hoc political associations, civil rights groups, churches, and radical fronts, this 'history of everyday people's activism . . . provides a case study in the tensions between individual self-interest and collective welfare that run through the history of [the] United States and liberalism.' Identifying the actors who made this reality, the names of activists are both known and unknown and include Rev. Addie Wyatt, Ida B. Wells, and Lovelynn Evans in labor, social service and employment, along with Tim Black, Sidney Williams, Ed "the Iron Master" Wright, and Ed Doty in civil rights, politics and labor.", Spanning five decades of history, Crucibles of Black Empowerment chronicles the community-based struggles waged by black Chicagoans against an unholy trinity of racial, class and gender inequalities. Using identities forged by work, family, and community, they pursued individual opportunity and collective welfare through economic initiative, political mobilization, unionization, protest, and patient institution building. More than anything else, Jeffrey Helgeson champions the durability of Black Chicago's pragmatic liberal tradition., Jeffrey Helgeson's Crucibles of Black Empowerment is a sweeping, compelling, and original contribution to Chicago's rich African American history that addresses on a wide range of subjects- individual and collective aspirations, the Second Great Migration, neighborhood activism, employment and housing discrimination, and political mobilizations in the mid-20th century, among other things. Grounded in exhaustive research, Helgeson's study meticulously reconstructs the contours of a liberal political culture in black Chicago that highlighted individual opportunity, pursued interracial coalitions, and advocated for governmental action to produce social change. On many levels this is a model study of black community politics and protest that should be required reading for anyone interested in Chicago's-and the country's-troubled racial past., Crucibles of Black Empowerment successfully explores the motivations and sources of how community-based protest politics counterbalanced the apathy and connivance of establishment politics and politicians over one half-century in efforts aimed at improving black life in Chicago. The activists who made this reality are both known and unknown, and include Rev. Addie Wyatt, Ida B. Wells, and Lovelyn Evans in labor, social service, and employment, along with Tim Black, Sidney Williams, Ed 'the Iron Master' Wright, and Ed Doty in civil rights, politics, and labor., Helgeson's analysis is informative and well-written, chronicling an important period in 20th century African American history. Helgeson expands on earlier studies of black Chicago utilizing sources that are original and enlightening. His examination of the influence of the NOI newspaper Muhammad Speaks shows how critical this publication was in developing a number of community-based programs and in leading the charge for the election of black candidates who would be independent of the Daley machines. Based on the skillful use of primary sources from a wide variety of archival collections, Crucibles of Black Empowerment is an insightful work that should be useful to researchers and students interested in understanding how Civil Rights, Black Power, and other national movements played out at the local level., Helgeson focuses not on the local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League but on lesser-known local individuals and networks that tried to improve African Americans' lives . . . This thoroughly researched, well-written volume marries the specific to the theoretical., Spanning five decades of history, Crucibles of Black Empowerment chronicles the community-based struggles waged by black Chicagoans against an unholy trinity of racial, class, and gender inequalities. Using identities forged by work, family, and community, they pursued individual opportunity and collective welfare through economic initiative, political mobilization, unionization, protest, and patient institution building. More than anything else, Jeffrey Helgeson champions the durability of black Chicago's pragmatic liberal tradition.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
323.1196073077311
Table Of Content
List of Figures and Maps Introduction 1. The Politics of Home in Hard Times 2. Community Development in an Age of Protest, 1935-40 3. "Will 'Our People' Be Any Better Off after This War?" 4. A Decent Place to Live: The Postwar Housing Shortage 5. Capitalism without Capital: Postwar Employment Activism 6. Sources of Black Nationalism from the 1950s to the 1970s 7. Harold Washington: Black Power and the Resilience of Liberalism Postscript: The Obamas and Black Chicago's Long Liberal Tradition Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer wasn't a serious one, and that it certainly wasn't on the list of credentials needed for a presidentialrésumé.In reality, community organizers have played key roles in the political lives of American cities for decades, perhaps never more so than during the 1970s in Chicago, where African Americans laid the groundwork for further empowerment as they organized against segregation, discrimination, and lack of equal access to schools, housing, and jobs. In Crucibles of Black Empowerment , Jeffrey Helgeson recounts the rise of African American political power and activism from the 1930s onward, revealing how it was achieved through community building. His book tells stories of the housewives who organized their neighbors, building tradesmen who used connections with federal officials to create opportunities in a deeply discriminatory employment sector, and the social workers, personnel managers, and journalists who carved out positions in the white-collar workforce. Looking closely at black liberal politics at the neighborhood level in Chicago, Helgeson explains how black Chicagoans built the networks that eventually would overthrow the city's seemingly invincible political machine., Jeffrey Helgeson shows how twentieth-century black Chicagoans created and sustained race-conscious institutions and politics. Some of the city's prominent political and cultural figures play roles in this story, but Helgeson focuses mostly on people who worked and lived outside the spotlight. Helgeson uncovers the domestic workers and housewives who organized their neighbors; the skilled building tradesmen who used connections to federal officials to create opportunities in a deeply discriminatory sector; the social workers, personnel managers, and journalists who carved out positions in the white-collar workforce while trying to use their position to open jobs to black workers. The results of these efforts remain open to debate--community institutions crumbled even as Harold Washington rose to become mayor--but, Helgeson shows, black Chicagoans engaged with the institutions of urban life in ways and to a degree not previously understood., The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer wasn't a serious one, and that it certainly wasn't on the list of credentials needed for a presidential r sum . In reality, community organizers have played key roles in the political lives of American cities for decades, perhaps never more so than during the 1970s in Chicago, where African Americans laid the groundwork for further empowerment as they organized against segregation, discrimination, and lack of equal access to schools, housing, and jobs. In Crucibles of Black Empowerment , Jeffrey Helgeson recounts the rise of African American political power and activism from the 1930s onward, revealing how it was achieved through community building. His book tells stories of the housewives who organized their neighbors, building tradesmen who used connections with federal officials to create opportunities in a deeply discriminatory employment sector, and the social workers, personnel managers, and journalists who carved out positions in the white-collar workforce. Looking closely at black liberal politics at the neighborhood level in Chicago, Helgeson explains how black Chicagoans built the networks that eventually would overthrow the city's seemingly invincible political machine.
LC Classification Number
F548.9.N4H45 2014
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