Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:30pm to 7pm
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150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC
https://stonecenter.unc.edu/events/writers-discussion-series-black-folk-the-roots-of-the-black-working-class-by-blair-lm-kelley/ ##uncstonecenterTitle: Black Folk – The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley
Book Description: There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story.
Spanning two hundred years-from one of Kelley’s earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic-Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.