Workers on Arrival(1st Edition) Black Labor in the Making of America by JoeWilliamTrotter 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,” ..."
From a Raw Deal to a New Deal(1st Edition) African Americans 1929-1945 (The Young Oxford History of African Americans) by JoeWilliamTrotter, 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 ..."
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 JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2020 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7991-9, ISBN: 0-8131-7991-2
""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 ..."
Keeping Heart A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia) by Otis Trotter, JoeWilliamTrotter 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, ..."
River Jordan(1st Edition) African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley (Ohio River Valley Series) by JoeWilliamTrotter, JoeTrotter Jr. Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1998 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-0950-3, ISBN: 0-8131-0950-7
BLACK MILWAUKEE(Reprint) The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (Blacks in the New World) by JoeWilliamTrotter 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. ..."
"Equally important, this volume illuminates the intellectual journey of a noted labor historian with deep family roots in the southern Appalachian coalfields."
Keeping Heart(Illustrated) A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia) by Otis Trotter, JoeWilliamTrotter Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-2189-5, ISBN: 0-8214-2189-1
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians.The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among the richest seams in the nation. As Garrison makes clear, the backbone of the early mining work force—those who laid the railroad tracks, mann ..."
River Jordan(Updated) African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley (Ohio River Valley) by JoeWilliamTrotter 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 ..."
Black Milwaukee The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (Blacks in the New World) by JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, 302 Pages, Published 1985 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01124-5, ISBN: 0-252-01124-4
" 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. ..."
"Documentary literature on African American history has largely neglected the significance of the industrial age in transforming the social, economic, and political patterns of black life in the United States. African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History, 1915-1945 fills that gap by providing a wide selection of documents that re-create the social history of African Americans during this watershed period. Oral life hist ..."
Blacks in the Diaspora The Great Migration in Historical Perspective : New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender by JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1991 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-36075-5, ISBN: 0-253-36075-7