David Arthur Goldberg (cu4197)

African American Studies

752 Student Center Building
5221 Gullen Mall
Detroit, MI 48202

Black social movements

Black labor history

Black urban history

Black Detroit

Black radicalism

Civil rights and black power movements

Black intellectual history, and race, labor and the law

My research focuses on the intersection between Black working class urban activism and Black social movements. My first book, "Black Power at Work," is an edited volume that chronicles the grassroots organizations and protests  that led to the development of affirmative action plans in the construction trades unions and the construction industry. My second book, "Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice and Equity in New York City," (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), explores the decades long struggle of Black firefighters to eliminate segregation, racism and structural barriers on the job and within New York's Black communities.

I am currently writing a political biography of legendary Detroit revolutionary, General Baker, who was a founding member of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW), the Communist Labor Party (CLP) and the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA). I am also putting together an edited collection of Baker's writings, speeches, and interviews that is tentatively titled, General Baker Speaks.

• 2006-2007, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, African American Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 2009-2010: President's Urban Research Enhancement Grant, Wayne State University
• 2010: Humanities Center, Summer Research Fellow, Wayne State University
• 2012-13: National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Scholar-in-Residency, Schomburg Center for Research in the Black Culture, New York, N.Y

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• 20th Century African American Activism in Detroit

Books

• David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey, "Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction Industry" (Ithaca: ILR/Cornell University Press, 2010)
• David Goldberg, "Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), (forthcoming, December, 2017)

Chapters in books

• David Goldberg, “Community Control of Construction, Independent Unionism, and the 'Short Black Power Movement' in Detroit,” in Goldberg and Griffey, eds., Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction Industry. (Ithaca: ILR/Cornell University Press, 2010), 90-111
• David Goldberg, “From Landless to Landlords: The Cooptation of Detroit’s Tenants’ Rights   Movement, 1964-1969,” in Julia Rabig and Laura Warren Hill, eds., The Business of Black Power: Corporations, Public Policy, and Community Development (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012), 157-183
• David Goldberg & Trevor Griffey, “Introduction: Constructing Black Power,” in Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction Industry. (Ithaca: ILR/Cornell University Press, 2010), 1-22
• David Goldberg & Trevor Griffey, “Conclusion: White Male Identity Politics, the Building Trades, and the Future of American Labor,” in Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction Industry. (Ithaca: ILR/Cornell University Press, 2010), 189-208 

Articles in non-referred journals

• David Goldberg, “Detroit’s Radical: General Gordon Baker,” Jacobin, (May 17, 2014)