| FT-260120-18 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Traci Lynnea Parker | Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s | 7/1/2018 - 8/31/2018 | $6,000.00 | Traci | Lynnea | Parker | | | | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Amherst | MA | 01003-9242 | USA | 2018 | African American History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | Research and writing of a monograph on the economic consequences of the integration of American department stores, from the 1950s to the 1980s.
I am seeking the assistance of a NEH Summer Stipend, so that I can complete my first book, Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights (under contract at the University of North Carolina Press). During the summer of 2018, I will conduct archival research at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. Here, I will review the records of the Sears, Roebuck, and Company affirmative action cases, the subject of my book’s sixth and final chapter. These cases expose the retail industry’s discriminatory practices against African Americans and women, the industry's ongoing transformations, ones that revolutionized, or rather diminished the status of retail work and consumption, and the challenges and limitations of neoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s. |