Black Firefighters and the FDNY

The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City

David Goldberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2017
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469633626 (ISBN)

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For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1914 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism. An important chapter in the histories of both Black social movements and independent workplace organizing, this book demonstrates how Black firefighters in New York helped to create affirmative action from the ""bottom up,"" while simultaneously revealing how white resistance to these efforts shaped white working-class conservatism and myths of American meritocracy.

Full of colorful characters and rousing stories drawn from oral histories, discrimination suits, and the archives of the Vulcan Society (the fraternal society of Black firefighters in New York), this book sheds new light on the impact of Black firefighters in the fight for civil rights.

David Goldberg is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Justice, Power, and Politics
Zusatzinfo	14 halftones
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-13	9781469633626 / 9781469633626
Zustand	Neuware