"This book traces efforts by Black public-sector workers and their unions to combat racial and economic injustice in Baltimore. For decades, civil rights activists had been fighting against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making. In...

Emancipation and the politics of Black labor -- Jim Crow's Black workers -- The great Black labor migration -- A new deal for Black workers -- The Black working-class movement for civil rights -- Opening the American workplace

Putting racial formation theory to work : a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach -- The lost files of Irish immigration history : the Irish woman question and racialized manual labors -- Southern mammy and African American "immigrant" women : reconstituting white...