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Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit (Working Class in American History)

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Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit examines how black workers’ activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. Tracing substantive, longstanding disagreements between liberals and black workers who embraced autonomous race-based action, David M. Lewis-Colman shows how black autoworkers placed themselves on the center of Detroit’s working-class politics and sought to forge one of those working-class unity that accommodated their interests as African Americans.

This chronicle of the black labor movement in Detroit begins with the independent caucuses within the 1940s and the Trade Union Leadership Council within the 1950s, through which black workers’ office activism crossed over into civic unionism, challenging the racial structure of town’s neighborhoods, leisure spaces, politics, and schools. By the mid-1960s, a full-blown black power movement had emerged in Detroit, and in 1968 black workers organized nationalist Revolutionary Union Movements throughout the auto plants, advocating an entire break from the labor established order. By the 1970s, the tradition of independent race-based activism among Detroit’s autoworkers continued to shape the politics of town as Coleman Young turned into town’s first black mayor in 1973.


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