Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon
the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of
Phoenix, Arizona, in search of freedom and opportunity--a move that
would ultimately transform an entire city and, arguably, the
nation. "Race Work" tells the story of this remarkable pair, two of
the most influential black activists of the post-World War II
American West, and through their story, supplies a missing chapter
in the history of the civil rights movement, American race
relations, African Americans, and the American West. Matthew C.
Whitaker explores the Ragsdales' family history and how their
familial traditions of entrepreneurship, professionalism, activism,
and "race work" helped form their activist identity and placed them
in a position to help desegregate Phoenix. His work, the first
sustained account of white supremacy and black resistance in
Phoenix, also uses the lives of the Ragsdales to examine themes of
domination, resistance, interracial coalition building, race,
gender, and place against the backdrop of the civil rights and
post-civil rights eras. An absorbing biography that provides
insight into African Americans' quest for freedom, "Race Work"
reveals the lives of the Ragsdales as powerful symbols of black
leadership who illuminate the problems and progress in African
American history, American Western history, and American history
during the post-World War II era.
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