"Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage, " Brooklyn, Illinois, was a magnet for African Americans from its founding by free and fugitive blacks in the 1820s. Initially attractive to escaped slaves and others seeking to live in a black-majority town, Brooklyn later drew black migrants eager to commute to jobs in East St. Louis and other industrial centers.
In America's First Black Town, now in paperback for the first time, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua traces Brooklyn's transformation from a freedom village into a residential commuter satellite. He examines why Brooklyn remained unindustrialized...
"Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage, " Brooklyn, Illinois, was a magnet for African Americans from its founding by free and fugitive blacks in th...
Theodore Koditschek Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Helen A. Neville
The essays in this collection start with the premise that although race, like class and gender, is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. Race, in other words, is a historical category that develops not only in dialectical relation to class and gender but also in relation to the material conditions in which all three are forged. In addition to discussing and analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience, contributors also consider the ways in which race plays itself out in the experience of Asian...
The essays in this collection start with the premise that although race, like class and gender, is socially constructed, all three categories have ...
