This narrative text explores the African American experience throughout United States history, with particular emphasis on work, community, and recurring discrimination. Unlike most other texts dealing with this subject matter, The African American Experience provides equal emphasis on the North and South.

The African American Experience

History

Trotter, Joe William

Africa

Cengage Learning'

The African American Experience, Volume I

African - American Experience, Volume 1 + Major Problems in African - American History, Volume 1

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

African American Experience Volume 1 + Holt Major Problems African American History Volume 1 + Writing for College History

African American Experience Volume 2 + Atlas

African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel slavery, West Virginia's Black working class gradually picked up steam during the emancipation years following the Civil War and dramatically expanded during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From there,&nbsp;African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry&nbsp;highlights the decline of the region's Black industrial proletariat under the impact of rapid technological, social, and political changes following World War II. It underscores how all miners suffered unemployment and outmigration from the region as global transformations took their toll on the coal industry, but emphasizes the disproportionately painful impact of declining bituminous coal production on African American workers, their families, and their communities. Joe Trotter not only reiterates the contributions of proletarianization to our knowledge of US labor and working-class history but also draws attention to the gender limits of studies of Black life that focus on class formation, while calling for new transnational perspectives on the subject. Equally important, this volume illuminates the intellectual journey of a noted labor historian with deep family roots in the southern Appalachian coalfields.

Business & Money

Economics

West Virginia University Press

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