To Place Our Deeds traces the development of the African American community in Richmond; California; a city on the San Francisco Bay. This readable; extremely well-researched social history; based on numerous oral histories; newspapers; and archival collections; is the first to examine the historical development of one black working-class community over a fifty-year period.Offering a gritty and engaging view of daily life in Richmond; Shirley Ann Wilson Moore examines the process and effect of migration; the rise of a black urban industrial workforce; and the dynamics of community development. She describes the culture that migrants brought with them—including music; food; religion; and sports—and shows how these traditions were adapted to new circumstances. Working-class African Americans in Richmond used their cultural venues—especially the city's legendary blues clubs—as staging grounds from which to challenge the racial status quo; with a steadfast determination not to be "Jim Crowed" in the Golden State.As this important work shows; working-class African Americans often stood at the forefront of the struggle for equality and were linked to larger political; social; and cultural currents that transformed the nation in the postwar period.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. thinking is historyBy William S Jamison“I say we find ourselves puzzled in our philosophies. Fixity is suspect; and flux is unconsoling.†P. 3Theme: thinking is history. It is an analogue of what might be called hyperfiction. That is; it is a template for possible future narratives philosophy might take. First order; second order discourse; legitimation.
