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Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who
arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He
left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but
as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a full-fledged city,
African Americans began to stay and build a community. By the early
twentieth century, black life in Seattle coalesced in the Central
District, a four-square-mile section east of downtown. Black
Seattle, however, was never a monolith. Through world wars,
economic booms and busts, and the civil rights movement, black
residents and leaders negotiated intragroup conflicts and had
varied approaches to challenging racial inequity. Despite these
differences, they nurtured a distinct African American culture and
black urban community ethos. With a new foreword and afterword,
this second edition of The Forging of a Black Community is
essential to understanding the history and present of the largest
black community in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who
arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He
left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but
as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a full-fledged city,
African Americans began to stay and build a community. By the early
twentieth century, black life in Seattle coalesced in the Central
District, a four-square-mile section east of downtown. Black
Seattle, however, was never a monolith. Through world wars,
economic booms and busts, and the civil rights movement, black
residents and leaders negotiated intragroup conflicts and had
varied approaches to challenging racial inequity. Despite these
differences, they nurtured a distinct African American culture and
black urban community ethos. With a new foreword and afterword,
this second edition of The Forging of a Black Community is
essential to understanding the history and present of the largest
black community in the Pacific Northwest.
Through much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous
with the Central District - a four-square-mile section near the
geographic center of the city. Quintard Taylor explores the
evolution of this community from its first few residents in the
1870s to a population of nearly forty thousand in 1970. With events
such as the massive influx of rural African Americans beginning
with World War II and the transformation of African American
community leadership in the 1960s from an integrationist to a black
power stance, Seattle both anticipates and mirrors national trends.
Thus, the book addresses not only a particular city in the Pacific
Northwest but also the process of political change in black
America. This book places black urban history in a broader
framework than most urban case studies by analyzing racial
perceptions, attitudes, and expectations in light of the presence
of another people of color, Asian Americans. Asians rather than
blacks were Seattle's largest racial minority until World War II.
Their presence limited African American employment and housing
opportunities by drawing blacks into intense competition with the
city's Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino populations. Yet the
virulent racism of the 1890-1940 era, usually directed against
blacks in urban communities, was diffused among Seattle's four
nonwhite groups. Consequently, Asians and blacks, admittedly uneasy
neighbors, became partners in coalitions challenging racial
restrictions while remaining competitors for housing and jobs.
Taylor explores the intersection of race and class in a city with a
decidedly liberal and at times radical political culture. He finds
that while local blacks operated in a racialenvironment that
allowed relatively open social interaction, at the same time they
were subject to restricted employment opportunities, preventing
rapid growth of the African American population. Taylor argues that
black Seattle was poised between two worlds, attempting to meld th
This book is a guide to kinetic studies of reaction mechanisms. It
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