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In reply to the discussion: Why Liberals Separate Race from Class [View all]Catherina
(35,568 posts)25. I'm glad FF worked
but more than that, thanks for such an eloquent response. Because I was so impressed with Prof Reed's article, I just ordered a book you might be interested in.
Not Alms but Opportunity
The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950
By Touré F. Reed
Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touré Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans.
Reed traces the Urban League's ideology to the famed Chicago School of Sociology. The Chicago School offered Leaguers powerful scientific tools with which to foil the thrust of eugenics. However, Reed argues, concepts such as ethnic cycle and social disorganization and reorganization led the League to embrace behavioral models of uplift that reflected a deep circumspection about poor Afro-Americans and fostered a preoccupation with the needs of middle-class blacks. According to Reed, the League's reform endeavors from the migration era through World War II oscillated between projects to "adjust" or even "contain" unacculturated Afro-Americans and projects intended to enhance the status of the Afro-American middle class. Reed's analysis complicates the mainstream account of how particular class concerns and ideological influences shaped the League's vision of group advancement as well as the consequences of its endeavors.
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1520
The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950
By Touré F. Reed
Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touré Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans.
Reed traces the Urban League's ideology to the famed Chicago School of Sociology. The Chicago School offered Leaguers powerful scientific tools with which to foil the thrust of eugenics. However, Reed argues, concepts such as ethnic cycle and social disorganization and reorganization led the League to embrace behavioral models of uplift that reflected a deep circumspection about poor Afro-Americans and fostered a preoccupation with the needs of middle-class blacks. According to Reed, the League's reform endeavors from the migration era through World War II oscillated between projects to "adjust" or even "contain" unacculturated Afro-Americans and projects intended to enhance the status of the Afro-American middle class. Reed's analysis complicates the mainstream account of how particular class concerns and ideological influences shaped the League's vision of group advancement as well as the consequences of its endeavors.
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1520
This is the first book I know of that examines the consequences of those economic biases. Chapters 4-6 are about the Urban League's relationship with organized labor so you know I want to read that!
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Good understanding of this explosive issue that seems to have been influenced ...
AuntPatsy
Aug 2015
#2
Yep. I really do believe that was his first goal with his candidacy........
socialist_n_TN
Aug 2015
#42
There is a reason for D politicians Who have adopted a hybrid theory of governance
Dragonfli
Aug 2015
#26
How are you going to change the Police Department's antagonistic process,
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2015
#60
I don't see anyone here separating the two. Well, let me correct that. I DO see people here
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#45
I see people here who almost reflexively try to shift a racial injustice topic into an economic one
Gormy Cuss
Aug 2015
#46
What's really tiresome is to see such an enormous issue, ignored mostly by the same people
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#48
This analysis is mistaken, of course. It is, of course, from a socialist magazine ....
kwassa
Aug 2015
#33
+10^10^100. The piece is extremely poorly written and makes points that don't follow at all.
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#40
So are you ssaying that you do not support Economic Equality/Justice for minorities? That appears
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#47
"So are you ssaying that you do not support Economic Equality/Justice for minorities?"
NuclearDem
Aug 2015
#49
What does any of that have to do with fighting for economic equality? And just WHO has ever said
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#50
You are diverting the topic. This thread is about BLM, not income equality per se.
kwassa
Aug 2015
#53
The topic is 'why Liberals Separate Racism from Class'. That is what the title of the OP
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#55
It's not just the AA posters on DU. Huge majorities of black people everywhere have been saying this
Number23
Aug 2015
#87
I have to wonder if O.J. Simpson had been poor, not having celebrity and economic power would the
Uncle Joe
Aug 2015
#52
Nobody is saying it will, but economic justice will go a long way toward leveling the playing field.
Uncle Joe
Aug 2015
#58
Shameless bullshit allegation - and you know it is. Twisting the truth that they are sometimes
bettyellen
Aug 2015
#68
Who is "they"? It is just a charge being thrown about. Capitalism requires division, an hierachy
mmonk
Aug 2015
#41
You're right but that person will never be able to accept that. If you have bought into
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#90