Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlie...
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| description | In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1518502025-07-21T15:44:37Z Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Parker, Traci Civil Rights Movement in the North Civil Rights Movement in the South labor movement labor-oriented civil rights movement black economic citizenship race and consumer capitalism labor and consumer capitalism black class formation black middle class African Americans and department stores department stores Macy’s Marshall Field and Company Sears, Roebuck, and Company Kmart Wal-Mart South Center Department Stores W.T. Grant’s Hecht’s department store black shopping black consumption Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work Movement Buy Where You Can Work movement retail unions and the civil rights movement worker-consumer alliances Strawbridge & Clothier Wanamaker’s racial capitalism civil rights activism in thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXU Trade unions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXU Trade unions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights. 2025-02-16T19:30:37Z 2025-02-16T19:30:37Z 2025-01-28T11:30:55Z 2019 book ONIX_20250128_9798890851437_8 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98052 9798890851437 9798890851420 9781469648675 9781469648682 9781469648668 9781469648699 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151850 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98052/1/9798890851437.pdf The University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469648699_Parker 10.5149/9781469648699_Parker f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 dcf50849-b837-420d-ac46-64995a7bf0d4 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890851437 9798890851420 9781469648675 9781469648682 9781469648668 9781469648699 University of North Carolina Press 328 Chapel Hill [...] National Endowment for the Humanities U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities 10.13039/100000103 open access |
| spellingShingle | Civil Rights Movement in the North Civil Rights Movement in the South labor movement labor-oriented civil rights movement black economic citizenship race and consumer capitalism labor and consumer capitalism black class formation black middle class African Americans and department stores department stores Macy’s Marshall Field and Company Sears, Roebuck, and Company Kmart Wal-Mart South Center Department Stores W.T. Grant’s Hecht’s department store black shopping black consumption Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work Movement Buy Where You Can Work movement retail unions and the civil rights movement worker-consumer alliances Strawbridge & Clothier Wanamaker’s racial capitalism civil rights activism in thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXU Trade unions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXU Trade unions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas Parker, Traci Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement |
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| topic | Civil Rights Movement in the North Civil Rights Movement in the South labor movement labor-oriented civil rights movement black economic citizenship race and consumer capitalism labor and consumer capitalism black class formation black middle class African Americans and department stores department stores Macy’s Marshall Field and Company Sears, Roebuck, and Company Kmart Wal-Mart South Center Department Stores W.T. Grant’s Hecht’s department store black shopping black consumption Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work Movement Buy Where You Can Work movement retail unions and the civil rights movement worker-consumer alliances Strawbridge & Clothier Wanamaker’s racial capitalism civil rights activism in thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXU Trade unions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXU Trade unions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas |
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