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Scholars who came of age after the 1997 publication of Tera Hunter’s To ’Joy My Freedom, entered a field of black women’s labor scholarship forever changed. Challenging traditional understandings of working-class narratives of economic politics and activism, this recovered history repositions black women’s roles in the quest for freedom and capitalist industrialization in the United States. Current scholarship on black women’s labor is deeply informed by this work; Routledge Journals is pleased to announce a Special Issue from Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society featuring articles that offer deep historical research on black women’s labor in the American workplace.
Scholars who came of age after the 1997 publication of Tera Hunter’s To ’Joy My Freedom, entered a field of black women’s labor scholarship forever changed. Challenging traditional understandings of working-class narratives of economic politics and activism, this recovered history repositions black women’s roles in the quest for freedom and capitalist industrialization in the United States. Current scholarship on black women’s labor is deeply informed by this work; Routledge Journals is pleased to announce a Special Issue from Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society featuring articles that offer deep historical research on black women’s labor in the American workplace.