Uplifting the Race
Black Leadership,
Politics, and Culture in
the 'TWentieth Century
Kevin K Gaines
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trying to belong to a society
that was defined in part by their exclusion."
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342
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$45
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Gastonia 1929
The Story of the
Loray Mill Strike
john A. Salmond
"[A] ... briskly told study .
[of how] Gastonia took on
mythic proportions. . . . The
fact that [the strikers] were
willing to risk livelihoods
and lives- under whatever
fallible leadership presented
itself to them at the time-stands onlyto their credit."
-Maurice
Isserman ,New York Times Book Review
240
pp.
$24.95
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Common Sense and aLittle Fire
Women and Working-Class Politics
in the United States,
1900-1965
Annelise Orleck
"Focusing on the lives of four remarkable women ..
Orleck weaves a complex and compelling story of class
and ethnic tensions, the struggles for workers' rights,
internecine warfare, and above all, the extremely
gendered nature of both politics and work.
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400
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$39.95
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Left Intellectuals
and Popular Culture
in Twentieth·Century
America
Paul R. Gorman
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explores how the lack of
engagement with real par–
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undercut the critique Left
intellectuals in the twentieth
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ture."-Daniel Horowitz,
Smith College
Gorman examines the
writings of liberal intellectu–
als of the first half of the
twentieth century including
Robert and Helen Lynd,
Dwight MacDonald, Philip
Rahv, William Phillips and
others.
256
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