Research Catalog

Title

African American urban history since World War II / edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kusmer, Kenneth L., 1945-
• Trotter, Joe William, 1945-

Description

xiv, 536 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Historical studies of urban America

Uniform Title

Historical studies of urban America.

Subjects

• United States > Ethnic relations
• Urban African Americans > History > 20th century
• Racism > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The second great migration and the new immigration. The second great migration: a historical overview / James N. Gregory -- Blacks, Latinos, and the new racial frontier in American cities of color: California's emerging minority-majority cities / Albert M. Camarillo -- The young lords and the postwar city: notes on the geographical and structural reconfigurations of contemporary urban life / Johanna Fernández -- Great expectations: African American and Latino relations in Phoenix since World War II / Matthew C. Whitaker -- Citizens and workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's regional economy since World War II / Carmen Teresa Whalen -- The second ghetto and the suburb. Realtors and racism in working-class Philadelphia, 1945-1970 / David McAllister -- Deadly inequalities: race, illness, and poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945 / Brett Williams -- "The house I live in": race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese -- Class, race, and politics. All across the nation: urban Black activism, North and South, 1965-1975 / Heather Ann Thompson -- Harvesting the crisis: the Newark uprising, the Kerner Commission, and writings on riots / Kevin Mumford -- Affirmative action from below: civil rights, the building trades, and the politics of racial equality in the urban north, 1945-1969 / Thomas J. Sugrue -- "Trouble won't last": black church activism in postwar Philadelphia / Karl Ellis Johnson -- The black professional middle class and the black community: racialized class formation in Oakland and the East Bay / Eric S. Brown -- Gender, class, and social-welfare policy. Shifting paradigms of black women's work in the urban north and west: World War II to the present / Jacqueline Jones -- "Something's wrong down here": poor black women and urban struggles for democracy / Rhonda Y. Williams -- Gendering postwar urban history: African American women, welfare, and poverty in Philadelphia / Lisa Levenstein -- Culture, consumption, and the black community. African American consumers since World War II / Robert E. Weems, Jr. -- Black dollar power: assessing African American consumerism since 1945 / Susannah Walker -- Race, place, and memory: African American tourism in the postindustrial city / Elizabeth Grant.

Call Number

Sc E 09-956

ISBN

• 9780226465098 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780226465104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0226465098 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226465101 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008055600

OCLC

262429601

Title

African American urban history since World War II / edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Series

Historical studies of urban America

Historical studies of urban America.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kusmer, Kenneth L., 1945-

Trotter, Joe William, 1945-

Research Call Number

Sc E 09-956