Racial consciousness and black scholarship: Charles H. Wesley and the consciousness of 'Negro Labor in the United States.'(Vindicating the Race: Contributions to African-American Intellectual History)

From: The Journal of Negro History | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: Wilson, Francille Rusan | Copyright information

Charles H. Wesley's 'Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925: A Study in American Economic History' contributed greatly to the growth of the Negro History movement. In his landmark study, Wesley criticized racist and uninformed views underlying stereotypes of black workers and their abilities from the antebellum period to the eve of the Great Depression, using a methodological framework. The seminal study became a model of analysis for black social scientists in the 1930s and 1940s and al...

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