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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Rich White Folks is the memoir of Robert H. Randolph, a former Senior International Computer Industry Marketing Consultant. Having retired after forty years in Corporate America, he reflects on what it was like growing up Black in Midwest America in the 1940s and ?Çÿ50s. Starting with his slave grandfathers story, he chronicles his life beginning with being born in Dallas, Texas, to his mother kidnapping him to Los Angeles. We follow his odyssey from Los Angeles to living in the Missouri Ozarks by age seven. He takes us from being educated in a one-room school to his personal triumph of graduating from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, with a degree in Mathematics. His unique story is at times funny, at other times moving, and often educational. You will learn the origin of that phrase, rich white folks that served as a guidepost during his quest for the middle class American dream.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
In 1930 almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why it happened during an era of strong union presence in the Alabama coalfields. Drawing on union, company, and government records as well as interviews with coal miners, Woodrum examines the complex connections between racial ideology and technological...
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