| Description |
xii, 340 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
A product of several conferences, seminars and lecture series sponsored by the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) and the Midwest Consortium for Black Studies (MCBS). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban -- United States.
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Sociology, Urban. |
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United States. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
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Lewis, Earl.
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Hunter, Tera W.
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| ISBN |
0312294646 |
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0312294654 paperback |
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