Buxton [[electronic resource] ] : a Black utopia in the heartland / / Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba and Elmer Schwieder

• Autore: Schwieder Dorothy <1933-2014.>
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
• Edizione: An expanded ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9/622; 977.00496073
• Soggetto topico: Coal miners - Iowa - Buxton
• Soggetto geografico: Buxton (Iowa) Race relations; Buxton (Iowa) Social conditions
• Altri autori: HrabaJoseph SchwiederElmer <1925->
• Note generali: Original subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; A Buxton Retrospective: Introduction to the 2003 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Muchakinock: Buxton's Historical Antecedent; 2. The Creation of a Community; 3. Workers in a Company Town; 4. The Consolidation Coal Company; 5. Family Life; 6. Ethnicity; 7. Buxton and Haydock: The Final Years; 8. A Perspective; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From 1900 until the early 1920's, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Coal Company, Buxton was the largest unincorporated coal mining community in Iowa. What made Buxton unique, however, is the fact that the majority of its 5,000 residents were African Americans-a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration-steady employment, above-average wages, decent
• Titolo autorizzato: Buxton
• ISBN: 1-58729-895-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819217603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bur oak book.