African American urban history since World War II
By: edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter.
Contributors: Kusmer, Kenneth L., 1945-; Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
Series: Historical studies of urban America; Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780226465098; 9780226465104
Subjects: Urban African Americans -- History -- 20th century; Racism -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The second great migration and the new immigration; title: The second great migration: a historical overview / James N. Gregory; title: Blacks, latinos, and the new racial frontier in American cities of color: California's emerging minority-majority cities / Albert M. Camarillo; title: The young lords and the postwar city: notes on the geographical and structural reconfigurations of contemporary urban life / Johanna Fernández; title: Great expectations: African American and latino relations in Phoenix since World War II / Matthew Whitaker; title: Citizens and workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's regional economy since World War II / Carmen Teresa Whalen; title: The second ghetto and the suburb : realtors and racism in working-class Philadelphia, 1945-1970 / David McAllister; title: Deadly inequalities: race, illness, and poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945 / Brett Williams; title: "The house I live in": race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese; title: Harvesting the crisis: the Newark uprising, the Kerner Commission, and writings on riots / Kevin Mumford; title: Affirmative action from below: civil rights, the building trades, and the politics of racial equality in the urban north, 1945-1969 / Thomas J. Sugrue; title: "Trouble won't last": black church activism in postwar Philadelphia / Karl Ellis Johnson; title: The black professional middle class and the black community: racialized class formation in Oakland and the East Bay / Eric S. Brown; title: 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; title: "Something's wrong down here": poor black women and urban struggles for democracy / Rhonda Y. Williams; title: Gendering postwar urban history: African American women, welfare, and poverty in Philadelphia / Lisa Levenstein; title: Culture, consumption, and the black community: African American consumers since World War II / Robert E. Weems, Jr; title: Black dollar power: assessing African American consumerism since 1945 / Susannah Walker; title: Race, place, and memory: African American tourism in the postindustrial city / Elizabeth Grant.