African American Urban History since World War II /

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Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe 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 whos...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brown, Eric S. (Contribuidor), Camarillo, Albert M. (Contribuidor), Fernández, Johanna (Contribuidor), Grant, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Gregory, James N. (Contribuidor), Johnson, Karl Ellis (Contribuidor), Jones, Jacqueline (Contribuidor), Kusmer, Kenneth L. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Levenstein, Lisa (Contribuidor), Mcallister, David (Contribuidor), Mumford, Kevin (Contribuidor), Sugrue, Thomas J. (Contribuidor), Thompson, Heather Ann (Contribuidor), Trotter, Joe W. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Walker, Susannah (Contribuidor), Weems, Robert E. (Contribuidor), Whalen, Carmen Teresa (Contribuidor), Whitaker, Matthew C. (Contribuidor), Wiese, Andrew (Contribuidor), Williams, Brett (Contribuidor), Williams, Rhonda Y. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Colección:Historical Studies of Urban America
Temas:
Racism > United States.
Urban African Americans > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
black, city, historical, academic, scholarly, history, wwii, wartime, war, postwar, migration, immigration, race, racism, racial, class, discrimination, america, american, united states, usa, western world, segregation, industrial, industrialization, work, workforce, labor, jobs, relationships, activism, social studies, change, ethnic, 20th century, civil rights, community, culture.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Second Great Migration and the New Immigration
  • 1. The Second Great Migration: A Historical Overview
  • 2. Blacks, Latinos, and the New Racial Frontier in American Cities of Color: California's Emerging Minority-Majority Cities
  • 3. The Young Lords and the Postwar City: Notes on the Geographical and Structural Reconfigurations of Contemporary Urban Life
  • 4. Great Expectations: African American and Latino Relations in Phoenix since World War II
  • 5. Citizens and Workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's Regional Economy since World War II
  • Part Two: The Second Ghetto and the Suburb
  • 6. Realtors and Racism in Working-Class Philadelphia, 1945-1970
  • 7. Deadly Inequalities: Race, Illness, and Poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945
  • 8. "The House I Live In": Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States
  • Part Three: Class, Race, and Politics
  • 9. All Across the Nation: Urban Black Activism, North and South, 1965-1975
  • 10. Harvesting the Crisis: The Newark Uprising, the Kerner Commission, and Writings on Riots
  • 11. Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945-1969
  • 12. "Trouble Won't Last": Black Church Activism in Postwar Philadelphia
  • 13. The Black Professional Middle Class and the Black Community: Racialized Class Formation in Oakland and the East Bay
  • Part Four: Gender, Class, and Social-Welfare Policy
  • 14. Shifting Paradigms of Black Women's Work in the Urban North and West: World War II to the Present
  • 15. "Something's Wrong Down Here": Poor Black Women and Urban Struggles for Democracy
  • 16. Gendering Postwar Urban History: African American Women, Welfare, and Poverty in Philadelphia
  • Part Five: Culture, Consumption, and the Black Community
  • 17. African American Consumers since World War II
  • 18. Black Dollar Power: Assessing African American Consumerism since 1945
  • 19. Race, Place, and Memory: African American Tourism in the Postindustrial City
  • Notes
  • Index

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