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African American urban history since World War II

Title
African American urban history since World War II / edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter.
ISBN
9780226465098 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226465104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226465098 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226465101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xiv, 536 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2009
Series
Historical studies of urban America.
Historical studies of urban America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The second great migration and the new immigration. The second great migration: a historical overview / James N. Gregory
Blacks, Latinos, and the new racial frontier in American cities of color: California's emerging minority-majority cities / Albert M. Camarillo
The young lords and the postwar city: notes on the geographical and structural reconfigurations of contemporary urban life / Johanna Fernández
Great expectations: African American and Latino relations in Phoenix since World War II / Matthew C. Whitaker
Citizens and workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's regional economy since World War II / Carmen Teresa Whalen
The second ghetto and the suburb. Realtors and racism in working-class Philadelphia, 1945-1970 / David McAllister
Deadly inequalities: race, illness, and poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945 / Brett Williams
"The house I live in": race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese
Class, race, and politics. All across the nation: urban Black activism, North and South, 1965-1975 / Heather Ann Thompson
Harvesting the crisis: the Newark uprising, the Kerner Commission, and writings on riots / Kevin Mumford
Affirmative action from below: civil rights, the building trades, and the politics of racial equality in the urban north, 1945-1969 / Thomas J. Sugrue
"Trouble won't last": black church activism in postwar Philadelphia / Karl Ellis Johnson
The black professional middle class and the black community: racialized class formation in Oakland and the East Bay / Eric S. Brown
Gender, class, and social-welfare policy. Shifting paradigms of black women's work in the urban north and west: World War II to the present / Jacqueline Jones
"Something's wrong down here": poor black women and urban struggles for democracy / Rhonda Y. Williams
Gendering postwar urban history: African American women, welfare, and poverty in Philadelphia / Lisa Levenstein
Culture, consumption, and the black community. African American consumers since World War II / Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Black dollar power: assessing African American consumerism since 1945 / Susannah Walker
Race, place, and memory: African American tourism in the postindustrial city / Elizabeth Grant.
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