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Parker draws on government, social movement, and private sector documents along with periodicals and oral histories to show African Americans in a dozen northern and southern cities subverting 'this ambiguous and contradictory space' of retail.--Choice Sheds light on the intricacies and impacts of African Americans' attempts to be afforded the right to work and shop at established stores. Wonderfully detailed.--Library Journal

Parker succeeds in bringing the department store as a significant political and cultural space into larger ways of understanding black subjectivity and citizenship. . . . Thanks to Parker, department stores will never again be passing references--mere scenery--for the larger historical drama of the modern Black Freedom Movement. . . . They have become places in which to see the main show.--Journal of African American History The historiographical debate surrounding the periodization and economic dimensions of the Black Freedom Movement is both well worn and unsettled. . . . Tracy Parker skillfully and importantly expands the scope of this debate.--North Carolina Historical Review Parker draws on government, social movement, and private sector documents along with periodicals and oral histories to show African Americans in a dozen northern and southern cities subverting 'this ambiguous and contradictory space' of retail.--Choice Sheds light on the intricacies and impacts of African Americans' attempts to be afforded the right to work and shop at established stores. Wonderfully detailed.--Library Journal

Sheds light on the intricacies and impacts of African Americans' attempts to be afforded the right to work and shop at established stores. Wonderfully detailed.--Library Journal

Sheds light on the intricacies and impacts of African Americans' attempts to be afforded the right to work and shop at established stores. Wonderfully detailed.--Library Journal Parker draws on government, social movement, and private sector documents along with periodicals and oral histories to show African Americans in a dozen northern and southern cities subverting 'this ambiguous and contradictory space' of retail.--Choice The historiographical debate surrounding the periodization and economic dimensions of the Black Freedom Movement is both well worn and unsettled. . . . Tracy Parker skillfully and importantly expands the scope of this debate.--North Carolina Historical Review Parker succeeds in bringing the department store as a significant political and cultural space into larger ways of understanding black subjectivity and citizenship. . . . Thanks to Parker, department stores will never again be passing references--mere scenery--for the larger historical drama of the modern Black Freedom Movement. . . . They have become places in which to see the main show.--Journal of African American History

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Traci Parker is assistant professor of Afro-American studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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