Book

Black Folk

The Roots of the Black Working Class

Blair LM Kelley

2023

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Q&A

Talking Black Joy and Black Freedom with Blair LM Kelley

“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”

by Regina Bradley, Blair LM Kelley via Public Books on December 16, 2024
Book Review

A Sweeping History of the Black Working Class

By focusing on the Black working class and its long history, Blair LM Kelley’s book, "Black Folk," helps tell the larger story of American democracy.

by Robert Greene II via The Nation on June 12, 2024
Book Review

Class, Race, and the Formation of Urban Black Communities

A review of three new studies about how race and class intersect.

by Randal Maurice Jelks via The Common Reader on February 21, 2024
Q&A

'Working Class' Does Not Equal 'White'

What it means to be a Black worker in the time since slavery.

by Ibram X. Kendi, Blair LM Kelley via The Atlantic on August 7, 2023

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