In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia by Earl Lewis

In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia

Earl Lewis

288 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sou...

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