{"product_id":"making-their-own-way","title":"Making Their Own Way","description":"      \"A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books\u003cbr\u003e         on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter\u003cbr\u003e         Gottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered,\u003cbr\u003e         premodern folk, 'utterly unprepared' for the complexities of urban life.\u003cbr\u003e         African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploiting\u003cbr\u003e         old solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscape\u003cbr\u003e         even as it transformed them.\" -- James Campbell, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e       \"Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition to\u003cbr\u003e         the fields of Afro-American, urban, and working-class history.\" --\u003cbr\u003e         Howard N. Rabinowitz, \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Historical Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \"Gottlieb uses oral histories, corporate records, and primary and\u003cbr\u003e         secondary scholarship to present a useful picture of an important part\u003cbr\u003e         of the Great Migration that followed World War I.\" -- George Lipsitz,\u003cbr\u003e         \u003ci\u003eChoice \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \"Sensitive and yet also incisive. . . . clear and often compelling.\u003cbr\u003e         An outstanding study.\" -- James R. Barrett, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e        Ethnic History \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \u003ci\u003ePublication of this work was supported in part by a grant from the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e        Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244423631192,"sku":"9780252066177","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-their-own-way","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}