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Book SynopsisAn in-depth chronicle of the black labor movement in Detroit
Trade Review“Lewis-Colman's book sheds light on just how entrenched racism was in American society and suggests that any glimmer of interracial liberalism may have been fool's gold.”--
The Journal of American History“
Race against Liberalism is a well-written narrative that provides readers with a greater sense of the complexities of racial politics within the labor movement in postwar Detroit. Lewis-Colman’s book is a welcome addition to the literature on the UAW, but it also has broader significance for the study of Detroit, race, and race relations generally within the twentieth-century United States.”--
Michigan Historical Review"Much more than a simple institutional history of the UAW and its black members, this work deftly moves beyond this theme to other crucial issues connected to the workplace, the Detroit community, the Cold War against labor, and to the civil rights and Black Nationalist movements."--Stephen Meyer, author of
"Stalin over Wisconsin": The Making and Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900-1950"Lewis-Colman's careful history of the politics of racial liberalism is the most detailed study to date of race and black workers in the UAW from 1941 to 1973 and is a compelling contribution to labor studies, black studies, race relations, sociology, and social history."--Richard W. Thomas, author of
Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations"Shines a much-needed-light on the politics of racial liberalism, the elephant occupying at least one room of the House of Labor. This well-research study deserves a prominent place on the reading lists of courses of American labor, urban, political, and racial history."--
American Studies"Compelling. . . . An important piece of scholarship."--
The Journal of African American History.
