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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Crystal Marie MotenPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780826505576ISBN 10: 0826505570 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. ""More than a Job"": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association 2. ""A Credit to Our City as well as Our State"": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s 3. Working Toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era 4. ""What the Mothers Have to Say"": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee 5. ""No Longer Marching"": Dismantling the Jim Crow Jobs System in a Post-Civil Rights Era Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index"ReviewsContinually Working marks Black working women's struggles to improve their economic lives as intellectual work, as part and parcel of Black women's intellectual traditions, and as part of their institution- and organization-building and community-oriented activism. -Keona K. Ervin, author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis In Continually Working, Moten convincingly illuminates how Black women's open rebellion against white supremacy and discriminatory labor practices radically altered the urban metropolis, transforming our understanding of Black women's history and leaving audiences with innovative frameworks, intriguing stories, and new ways of discussing the Black freedom struggle. -LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy "Continually Working marks Black working women's struggles to improve their economic lives as intellectual work, as part and parcel of Black women's intellectual traditions, and as part of their institution- and organization-building and community-oriented activism.""—Keona K. Ervin, author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis ""In Continually Working, Moten convincingly illuminates how Black women's open rebellion against white supremacy and discriminatory labor practices radically altered the urban metropolis, transforming our understanding of Black women's history and leaving audiences with innovative frameworks, intriguing stories, and new ways of discussing the Black freedom struggle.""—LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy" Continually Working marks Black working women's struggles to improve their economic lives as intellectual work, as part and parcel of Black women's intellectual traditions, and as part of their institution- and organization-building and community-oriented activism. --Keona K. Ervin, author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis In Continually Working, Moten convincingly illuminates how Black women's open rebellion against white supremacy and discriminatory labor practices radically altered the urban metropolis, transforming our understanding of Black women's history and leaving audiences with innovative frameworks, intriguing stories, and new ways of discussing the Black freedom struggle. --LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy Author InformationCrystal Marie Moten is a public historian, curator, and writer who focuses on the intersection of race, class, and gender to uncover the hidden histories of Black people in the Midwest. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |