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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,” ..."






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 ..."






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
Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2020 by University Press Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7991-9, ISBN: 0-8131-7991-2

"Part 1."






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






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 ..."






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, ..."






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






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






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.  ..."






African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry(First Edition)
by Trotter, Joe William
Paperback, 179 Pages, Published 2024 by West Virginia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-959000-12-9, ISBN: 1-959000-12-8

"Equally important, this volume illuminates the intellectual journey of a noted labor historian with deep family roots in the southern Appalachian coalfields."






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






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






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 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 ..."






Memphis Tennessee Garrison(1st Edition)
The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman (Ethnicity & Gender In Appalach)
by Memphis Tennessee Garrison, Ancella R. Bickley, Lynda Ann Ewen, Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 282 Pages, Published 2001 by Ohio University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1373-9, ISBN: 0-8214-1373-2

"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 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 ..."






African Americans in Pennsylvania
Shifting Historical Perspectives
by Eric Ledell Smith, Joe William Trotter, Jr. Trotter
Hardcover, 519 Pages, Published 1997 by Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-01686-3, ISBN: 0-271-01686-8






Black Milwaukee
The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (Blacks in the New World)
by Joe William Trotter
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.  ..."






African Americans in the Industrial Age
A Documentary History, 1915-1945
by Earl Lewis, Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 1996 by Northeastern Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-55553-257-4, ISBN: 1-55553-257-8

"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 Joe William Trotter
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1991 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-36075-5, ISBN: 0-253-36075-7



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