Waubonsee Community College

African American urban experience, perspectives from the colonial period to the present, edited by Joe W. Trotter with Earl Lewis and Tera W. Hunter

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

African American urban experience

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edited by Joe W. Trotter with Earl Lewis and Tera W. Hunter

perspectives from the colonial period to the present

Historical Perspectives -- Urban Alliance: The Emergence of Race-Based Populism in the Age of Jackson / James Oliver Horton -- Industrial Slavery: Linking the Periphery and the Core / Ronald L. Lewis -- Black life on the Mississippi: African-American Steamboat Laborers and the Work Culture of the Antebellum Western Steamboats / Thomas Buchanan -- The 'Brotherly Love' for Which This City is Proverbial Should Extend to All / Tera Hunter -- Urban Black Labor in the West, 1849-1940: Reconceptualizing the Image of a Region / Quintard Taylor -- Social Scientific, Cultural, and Policy Perspectives -- Race, Class, and Conceptual Exclusion: The Underclass Concept in Historical Perspective / Alice O'Connor -- Black + Women = Work: Gender Dimensions of the African American Economic Experience / Susan Williams McElroy -- Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender / William A. Darity and Patrick L. Mason -- Race, Class, and Space: An Examination of Underclass Notions in the Steel and Motor Cities / Karen J. Gibson -- The Black Community Building Process in Post-Urban Disorder Detroit, 1967-1997 / Richard Walter Thomas -- Comparative Perspectives -- Asian American Labor and Historical Interpretation / Chris Friday -- Conversing Across Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender, and Region: Latino and Latina Labor History / Camille Guerin-Gonzales -- Ethic and Racial Fragmentation: Toward a Reinterpretation of a Local Labor Movement -- Is Race the Problem of the 21st Century? / Alan Dawley