Race against Liberalism

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"Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit examines how black workers' activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. Tracing substantive, long-standing disagreements between liberals and black workers who embraced autonomous race-based action, David M. Lewis-Colman shows how black autoworkers placed themselves at the center of Detroit's working-class politics and sought to forge a kind of working-class unity that accommodated their interests as African Americans."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African americans, social conditions,  United states, race relations,  United states, ethnic relations,  African American labor union members,  History,  African American automobile industry workers,  Labor unions,  Racism,  International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)