| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 536 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Historical studies of urban America
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Historical studies of urban America.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
"Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history of the postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject. The first of this volume's five groundbreaking sections focuses on black migration and Latino immigration, examining tensions and alliances that emerged between African Americans and other groups. Exploring the challenges of residential segregation and deindustrialization, later sections tackle such topics as the real estate industry's discriminatory practices, the movement of middle-class blacks to the suburbs, and the influence of black urban activists on national employment and social welfare policies. Another group of contributors examines these themes through the lens of gender, chronicling deindustrialization's disproportionate impact on women and women's leading roles in movements for social change. Concluding with a set of essays on black culture and consumption, this volume fully realizes its goal of linking local transformations with the national and global processes that affect urban class and race relations"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
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Urban African Americans. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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United States. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Racism -- United States.
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Racism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Added Author |
Kusmer, Kenneth L., 1945-
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Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African American urban history since World War II. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226465098 9780226465104 (DLC) 2008055600 (OCoLC)262429601 |
| ISBN |
9780226465128 (electronic book) |
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0226465128 (electronic book) |
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1282267124 |
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9781282267121 |
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9780226465098 (cloth) |
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0226465098 (cloth) |
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9780226465104 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226465101 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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