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Workers on Arrival(1st Edition)
Black Labor in the Making of America
by Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29945-0, ISBN: 0-520-29945-0

""An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class."—The Nation From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” ..."






Black Milwaukee(2nd Edition)
The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45
by Joe William Trotter, Alison Isenberg, Kimberley L. Phillips
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07410-3, ISBN: 0-252-07410-6

" Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers.  The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter’s ground-breaking study.  ..."






River Jordan(1st Edition)
African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley (Ohio River Valley Series)
by Joe William Trotter, Joe Trotter Jr.
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1998 by University Press Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-0950-3, ISBN: 0-8131-0950-7

"Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced ra ..."






From a Raw Deal to a New Deal(1st Edition)
African Americans 1929-1945 (The Young Oxford History of African Americans)
by Joe William Trotter, Oxford University Press
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508771-0, ISBN: 0-19-508771-2

"Bank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work--these images defined the 1930s and '40s in America. For African Americans the era was a study in contrasts: black workers had the highest unemployment rate at a time when black leaders held important positions in Franklin Roosevelt's administration; New Deal legislation threw hundreds of thousands of black sharecroppers off the land while the same federal go ..."






The Great Migration in Historical Perspective(91st Edition)
New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by Joe William Trotter, Nell Irvin Painter, Indiana University Press, Irvin Painter, Jr. Joe Trotter
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1991 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20669-5, ISBN: 0-253-20669-3

""The essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African-American migration which began in the early twentieth century." --Southern Historian"As an overview of a field in transition, this is a valuable and deeply thought-provoking anthology." --Pennsylvania History..". provocative and informative... " --Louisiana History"The papers themselves are uniformly strong, and read together cast interesti ..."






The African American Experience(1st Edition)
by Joe William Trotter
Paperback, 768 Pages, Published 2000 by Cengage Learning
ISBN-13: 978-0-395-75654-6, ISBN: 0-395-75654-5

"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 text includes an extensive program of art, photos, and maps."Changing Historical Interpretations" features explore the changes t ..."






2(1st Edition)
The African American Experience, Volume II: From Reconstruction
by Joe William Trotter
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2000 by Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-07197-5, ISBN: 0-618-07197-0

"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."






Keeping Heart(Illustrated)
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia)
by Otis Trotter, Joe William Trotter
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Ohio University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-2189-5, ISBN: 0-8214-2189-1

"“After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,” Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the story begins in 1914 with his parents, ..."






1(1st Edition)
The African American Experience, Volume I
by Joe William Trotter
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2000 by Cengage Learning
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-07196-8, ISBN: 0-618-07196-2

"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 Urban Experience
Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present
by Joe W. Trotter, Tera W. Hunter, Earl Lewis, Joe William Trotter, 39 Plt
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-29465-6, ISBN: 0-312-29465-4

"Although African Americans have lived in cities since the colonial era, the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is largely a twentieth century phenomenon. Only during World War I did African Americans move into cities in large numbers, and only during World War II did more blacks reside in cities than in the countryside. In their quest for full citizenship rights, economic democracy, and release from an opp ..."






BLACK MILWAUKEE(Reprint)
The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (Blacks in the New World)
by Joe William Trotter
Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06035-9, ISBN: 0-252-06035-0

" Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers.  The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter’s ground-breaking study.  ..."






River Jordan(Updated)
African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley (Ohio River Valley)
by Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Pr Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2065-2, ISBN: 0-8131-2065-9

"Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It marked the passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the Industrial age it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. Consequently, the Ohio became known as the "River Jordan, " symbolizing the path to the promised land. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter tr ..."






Workers on Arrival
Black Labor in the Making of America (Paperback)
by Joe William Trotter
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of California Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-37751-6, ISBN: 0-520-37751-6

"... Yevette Richards Jordan, Maida Springer-Kemp: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000), 5, 77–78, 94–95, 176–77. 26. Marcia Walker-McWilliams, Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and ..."






Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement
A Century of Social Service and Activism (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century)
by Joe William Trotter, Dick Gilbreath
Paperback, Published 2020 by The University Press Of Kentucky, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8070-0, ISBN: 0-8131-8070-8






The Ghetto in Global History(1st Edition)
1500 to the Present
by Wendy Z. Goldman, Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 378 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-28229-2, ISBN: 1-138-28229-4

"The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of ‘the ghetto’ over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book allows readers to draw thought-provoking comparisons across time and space among ghettos that are not usually studied alongside one another. The volume is structured around f ..."






The Ghetto in Global History(1st Edition)
by Wendy Z. Goldman, Joe William Trotter
Paperback, 378 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-28230-8, ISBN: 1-138-28230-8

"The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of ‘the ghetto’ over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book allows readers to draw thought-provoking comparisons across time and space among ghettos that are not usually studied alongside one another. The volume is structured around f ..."






African Americans in Pennsylvania(1st Edition)
Shifting Historical Perspectives: Shifting Historical Perspectives
by Joe William Trotter, Eric Ledell Smith
Paperback, 536 Pages, Published 1997 by Penn State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-01687-0, ISBN: 0-271-01687-6

"This collection serves as the single most comprehensive treatment of Pennsylvania's black history yet to appear in print. ―ChoiceContributors are Elijah Anderson, John F. Bauman, R. J. M. Blackett, John E. Bodnar, Carolyn Leonard Carson, Dennis C. Dickerson, Gerald G. Eggert, V. P. Franklin, Laurence Glasco, Peter Gottlieb, Theodore Hershberg, Leroy T. Hopkins, Norman P. Hummon, Emma Jones Lapsansky, Janice Sumler Lewis, Frederic Miller ..."






Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia)
by Otis Trotter, Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Ohio University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-2188-8, ISBN: 0-8214-2188-3

"“After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,” Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the story begins in 1914 with his parents, ..."






The African American Urban Experience
Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present
by Earl Lewis, Poetry Society, Tera W. Hunter, Joe W. Trotter, Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-29464-9, ISBN: 0-312-29464-6

"Although African Americans have lived in cities since the colonial era, the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is largely a twentieth century phenomenon. Only during World War I did African Americans move into cities in large numbers, and only during World War II did more blacks reside in cities than in the countryside. In their quest for full citizenship rights, economic democracy, and release from an opp ..."






African American Experience Complete And Major Problems In African American History, Volume 1(1st Edition)
by Joe William Trotter
Paperback, Published 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-41415-4, ISBN: 0-618-41415-0



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