<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "African Americans — Employment — History."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "African Americans — Employment — History."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/sjcpl/rss/search?query=%22African%20Americans%20%E2%80%94%20Employment%20%E2%80%94%20History.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:21:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery by Another Name]]></title><link>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C1790900</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C1790900</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blackmon, Douglas A.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1790900099</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Re-enslavement of Black People in America From the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385506250/MC.GIF&amp;client=sjcpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Folk]]></title><description><![CDATA["An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. 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, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking jobs white people didn't want and confined to segregated neighborhoods, Black workers found community in intimate spaces, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen, where multiple generations labored from dawn to dusk, talking and laughing in a space free of white supervision and largely beyond white knowledge. As millions of Black people left the violence of the American South for the promise of a better life in the North and West, these networks of resistance and joy sustained early arrivals and newcomers alike and laid the groundwork for organizing for better jobs, better pay, and equal rights. As her narrative moves from Georgia to Philadelphia, Florida to Chicago, Texas to Oakland, Kelley treats Black workers not just as laborers, or members of a class, or activists, but as people whose daily experiences mattered--to themselves, to their communities, and to a nation that denied that basic fact. Through affecting portraits of her great-grandfather, a sharecropper named Solicitor, and her grandmother, Brunell, who worked for more than a decade as a domestic maid, Kelley captures, in intimate detail, how generation after generation of labor was required to improve, and at times maintain, her family's status. Yet her family, like so many others, was always animated by a vision of a better future. The church yards, factory floors, railcars, and postal sorting facilities where Black people worked were sites of possibility, and, as Kelley suggests, Amazon package processing centers, supermarkets, and nursing homes can be the same today. With the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2421152</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2421152</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelley, Blair Murphy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2421152099</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Roots of the Black Working Class</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781631496554/MC.GIF&amp;client=sjcpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation]]></title><link>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2202077</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2202077</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2202077099</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781608465620/MC.GIF&amp;client=sjcpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery by Another Name]]></title><description><![CDATA[Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.]]></description><link>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C1942481</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C1942481</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1942481099</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781608836253/MC.GIF&amp;client=sjcpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=841887016285</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Right to An Honest Living]]></title><description><![CDATA["Before, during, and after the US Civil War, Boston's Black workers were barred from the skilled trades, factory work, and public-works projects. In Boston, as in cities across the North, white abolitionists focused virtually all their energies on the plight of enslaved Black Southerners, while refusing to address the challenges faced by their Black neighbors. The author presents inspiring and heart-wrenching stories of people-from day laborers and domestics to physicians and lawyers-who ingeniously forged careers in the face of monumental obstacles"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2415099</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2415099</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jones, Jacqueline]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2415099099</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Struggles of Boston&apos;s Black Workers in the Civil War Era</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781541619791/MC.GIF&amp;client=sjcpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Reconstruction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on the nation's post-Civil War era of political reorganization, a time when African American progress was met with a white supremacist backlash and ultimately yielded to the consolidation of the unjust social order of Jim Crow. Black Reconstruction is a pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that, in the wake of the censorship of Du Bois's characterization of Reconstruction by the Encyclopedia Britannica, was written to debunk influential historians whose racist ideas and emphases had disfigured the historical record. "The chief witness in Reconstruction, the emancipated slave himself," Du Bois argued, "has been almost barred from court. His written Reconstruction record has been largely destroyed and nearly always neglected." In setting the record straight Du Bois produced what co-editor Eric Foner has called an "indispensable book," a magisterial work of detached scholarship that is also imbued with passionate outrage. Black Reconstruction is joined here for the first time with important writings that trace Du Bois's thinking throughout his career about Reconstruction and its centrality in understanding the tortured course of democracy in America.]]></description><link>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2402286</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2402286</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Du Bois, W. E. B.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2402286099</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Essay Toward A History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880, &amp; Other Writings</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781598537031/MC.GIF&amp;client=sjcpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double Victory]]></title><description><![CDATA[An account of the lesser-known contributions of African-American women during World War II reveals how they helped lay the foundations for the Civil Rights Movement by challenging racial and gender barriers at home and abroad.]]></description><link>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2441839</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S99C2441839</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mullenbach, Cheryl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sjcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2441839099</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781613735237/MC.GIF&amp;client=sjcpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>