BLACK MILWAUKEE: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (Blacks in the New World)

Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers.  The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter’s ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee’s black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter’s colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.     

Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (Blacks in the New World)

Business & Money

Trotter, Joe W.

Economics

University of Illinois Press

Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (Blacks in the New World)

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History

Americas

<p>From the rear cover of this 290 page book: "How were southern blacks transformed from rural agricultural workers into members of the industrial working class? Joe Williams Trotter, Jr., examines the unique experiences of black coal miners in southern West Virginia between World War I and the Great Depression, showing how the subtle interplay of race, class, and region altered black people's personal and collective existence. Proletarianization, according to Trotter, is the key to crystallization of black life in cornfields. The process involved not only the impact of white capital, labor, and the state, but also important changes in the material conditions of Afro-American life, the activities of black culture, consciousness, and community. This new industrial experience was reflected in the rise of the black middle class, the expansion of black institutions, the proliferation of Republican clubs, and the rise of new political initiatives like the Garvey movement and the rapidly growin</p>

Coal, Class, and Color Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (Blacks in the New World)

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