African American Urban History since World War II
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- ISBN 9780226465104
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Kenneth L. Kusmer is professor of history at Temple University. Joe W. Trotter is the Mellon Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University.
