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African American urban history since World War II / edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter.

Other author/creatorKusmer, Kenneth L., 1945-
Other author/creatorTrotter, Joe William, 1945-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiv, 536 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America. ^A372868
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 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008055600
ISBN9780226465098 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226465104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226465098 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226465101 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.61 .A2393 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold