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

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Other Authors: Kusmer, Kenneth L., 1945-, Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Series:Historical studies of urban America.
Subjects:
Urban African Americans > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:xiv, 536 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.