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Narratives Of Interiority: Black Lives In The U.S. Capital, 1919 - 1942, Paula C. Austin
Narratives Of Interiority: Black Lives In The U.S. Capital, 1919 - 1942, Paula C. Austin
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This dissertation constructs an urban, social and intellectual history of poor and working class African Americans in the interwar period in Washington, D.C. Although the advent of social history shifted scholarly emphasis onto the "ninety-nine percent," many scholars have framed black history as the story of either the educated, uplifted and accomplished elite, or of a culturally depressed monolithic urban mass in need of the alleviation of structural obstacles to advancement. A history of the poor and working class as individuals with both ideas and subjectivity has often been difficult simply because there are limited archival sources.
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