Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis
and lived experience "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked
W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across
the color line, the "Negro problem" was inextricably linked to the
concurrent "labor problem," occasioning debates regarding blacks'
role in the nation's industrial past, present and future. With
blacks freed from the seemingly protective embrace of slavery, many
felt that the ostensibly primitive Negro was doomed to expire in
the face of unbridled industrial progress. Yet efforts to address
the so-called "Negro problem" invariably led to questions regarding
the relationship between race, industry and labor writ large. In
consequence, a collection of thinkers across the natural and social
sciences developed a new culture of racial management, linking race
and labor to color and the body. Evolutionary theory and industrial
management combined to identify certain peoples with certain forms
of work and reconfigured the story of races into one of development
and decline, efficiency and inefficiency, and the thin line between
civilization and savagery. Forging a Laboring Race charts the
history of an idea-race management-building on recent work in
African American, labor, and disability history to analyze how
ideas of race, work, and the "fit" or "unfit" body informed the
political economy of early twentieth-century industrial America.
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