Remaking Respectability,9780807849668

Remaking Respectability

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ISBN13: 9780807849668
ISBN10: 0807849669
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary

Examining black women's lives during the inter-war period in Detroit, Wolcott argues that by the 1930s, African Americans had remade notions of respectability, as the Great Depression & the problem of unemployment supplanted the earlier primacy of religious & moral concerns & a female, bourgeois ideology of racial uplift gave way to a masculine ideology of self-determination.

Author Biography

Victoria W. Wolcott is assistant professor of history at Saint Bonaventure University in New York

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(10)
Female Uplift Ideology, the Politics of Class, and Resettlement in Detroit
11(38)
Reform and Public Displays of Respectability in Great Migration Detroit
49(44)
The Informal Economy, Leisure Workers, and Economic Nationalism in the 1920s
93(38)
Neighborhood Expansion and the Decline of Bourgeois Respectability in the 1920s
131(36)
Economic Self-Help and Black Nationalism in the Great Depression
167(40)
Grassroots Activism, New Deal Policies, and the Transformation of African American Reform in the 1930s
207(34)
Conclusion 241(6)
Notes 247(56)
Bibliography 303(28)
Index 331

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