LEADER 04556nam 22006855 450 001 9910814131203321 005 20240418121502.0 010 $a1-4798-6495-1 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479864959 035 $a(CKB)3710000000709288 035 $a(EBL)4045246 035 $a(OCoLC)950690315 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001672296 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16470102 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001672296 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14926189 035 $a(PQKB)11056386 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4045246 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597616 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51730 035 $a(DE-B1597)548637 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479864959 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000709288 100 $a20200723h20162016 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aForging a Laboring Race $eThe African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination /$fPaul R.D. Lawrie 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 225 0 $aCulture, Labor, History ;$v11 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-5732-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Mortality as the Life Story of a People: Frederick L. Hoffman and Actuarial Narratives of African American Extinction, 1896?1915 --$t2. The Negro Is Plastic: The Department of Negro Economics, Sociology, and the Wartime Black Worker --$t3. Measuring Men for the Work of War: Anthropometry, Race, and the Wartime Draft, 1917?1919 --$t4. Salvaging the Negro: Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Veterans, 1917?1924 --$t5. A New Negro Type: The National Research Council and the Production of Racial Expertise in Postwar America, 1919?1929 --$tEpilogue: Invisible Men: The Afterlives of the Negro Problem in American Racial Thought --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aForegrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience ?How does it feel to be a problem?? asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the ?Negro problem? was inextricably linked to the concurrent ?labor problem,? occasioning debates regarding blacks? role in the nation?s industrial past, present and future. With blacks freed from the seemingly protective embrace of slavery, many felt that the ostensibly primitive Negro was doomed to expire in the face of unbridled industrial progress. Yet efforts to address the so-called ?Negro problem? invariably led to questions regarding the relationship between race, industry and labor writ large. In consequence, a collection of thinkers across the natural and social sciences developed a new culture of racial management, linking race and labor to color and the body. Evolutionary theory and industrial management combined to identify certain peoples with certain forms of work and reconfigured the story of races into one of development and decline, efficiency and inefficiency, and the thin line between civilization and savagery. Forging a Laboring Race charts the history of an idea?race management?building on recent work in African American, labor, and disability history to analyze how ideas of race, work, and the ?fit? or ?unfit? body informed the political economy of early twentieth-century industrial America. 410 0$aCulture, labor, history. 606 $aIndustrialization$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLabor$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorking class African Americans$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEmployment$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xHistory$y1877-1964 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aIndustrialization$xHistory 615 0$aLabor$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class African Americans$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEmployment$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 676 $a331.6396073 700 $aLawrie$b Paul R.D.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01641569 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814131203321 996 $aForging a Laboring Race$93985809 997 $aUNINA