Black Firefighters and the FDNY (eBook)

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

David Goldberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
424 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3363-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 1898 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 "e;bottom up,"e; 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.

Autor

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 23 halftones, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: “colorblind racism • Affirmative Action • ” firefighters and urban uprisings. • Black firefighters • Black independent unionism • Black labor activism • Black public sector workers • Black workers and Black Power • Black workers and the freedom struggle • Black working-class activism • “colorblind racism • employment discrimination • FDNY • ” firefighters and urban uprisings. • Job discrimination • the civil rights movement in New York • the myth of meritocracy • union discrimination • U.S. v. City of New York, International Association of Black Professional Firefighters, Uninformed Firefighters Association • Vulcan Society • Wesley Williams
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3363-9 / 1469633639
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3363-3 / 9781469633633