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White Man’s Work

Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era

By: Joseph O. Jewell

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White Man’s Work

Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era

By: Joseph O. Jewell

In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the "browning" of the nation's middle class—once considered a de facto "white" category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. Jewell takes us back to the turn of the twentieth century to show how evidence of middle-class mobility among Black, Mexican American, and Chinese men generated both new anxieties and varieties of backlash among white populations. Blending cultural history and historical sociology, Jewell chronicles the continually evolving narratives that linked whiteness with middle-class mobility and middle-class manhood. In doing so, Jewell addresses a key issue in the historical sociology of race: how racialized groups demarcate, defend, and alter social positions in overlapping hierarchies of race, class, and gender. New racist narratives about non-white men occupying middle-class occupations emerged in cities across the nation at the turn of the century. These stories helped to shore up white supremacy in the face of far-reaching changes to the nation's racialized economic order.

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Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900

By: Joseph O. Jewell

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Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900

By: Joseph O. Jewell

Moral reform movements targeting racial minorities have long been central in negotiating the relationship between race and class in the United States, particularly in periods of large scale social change. Over a century ago, when the abolition of racial slavery, Southern Reconstruction, industrialization, and urban migration presented challenges to both race and class hierarchies in the South, postbellum missionary reform organizations like the American Missionary Association crusaded to establish schools, colleges, and churches for Blacks in Southern cities like Atlanta that would aggressively erode cultural differences among former slaves and assimilate them into a civic order defined by Anglo-Protestant culture. While the AMA's missionary institutions in Atlanta sought to shift racial dynamics between Blacks and Whites, they also fueled struggles over the social and cultural boundaries of middle class belonging in a region beset by social change. Drawing upon late nineteenth century accounts of AMA missionary activity in Atlanta, Black attempts to define and maintain a middle class identity, and Atlanta Whites' concerns about Black attempts at upward mobility, the author argue that the rhetoric about the implications of increased minority access to middle class resources like education and cultural knowledge speaks to links between anxieties about class position and racial status in societies stratified by both class and race.

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Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900

By: Joseph O. Jewell

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The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900

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White Man’s Work

White Man’s Work

Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class

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