Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

Title: Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class Author: Blair LM Kelley ISBN: 9781631496554 Publisher: Liveright Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Black Studies 1569002 Publisher Description: There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. Spanning two hundred years--from one of Kelley's earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic--Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters