Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
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African American consumers
African American workers
African Americans and department stores
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black class formation
black consumption
black economic citizenship
black middle class
black purchasing power
black shopping
boycotts
Buy Where You Can Work movement
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Charlotte (North Carolina) Sit-In Movement
civil rights activism in Chicago
civil rights activism in New York City
Civil Rights Movement in the North
Civil Rights Movement in the South
clerical/office work
clericaloffice work
consumer protests
D.C.
department store movement
department stores
Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Movement
Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work Movement
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
gender discrimination
Hecht's department store
Hecht’s department store
Kmart
labor and consumer capitalism
labor movement
labor-oriented civil rights movement
Macy's
Macy’s
Marshall Field and Company
Mary Church Terrell
Philadelphia department stores
race and consumer capitalism
race segregation and discrimination
racial capitalism
retail unions and the civil rights movement
Roebuck
sales work
Sears
sex discrimination
sit-in movements
South Center Department Stores
Strawbridge and Clothier
W.T. Grant's
W.T. Grant’s
Wal-Mart
Wanamaker's
Wanamaker’s
white-collar work
worker-consumer alliances
Product details
- ISBN 9781469648668
- Weight: 618g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Traci Parker is assistant professor of Afro-American studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
