"Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history of the postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject.           The first of this volumeâs ..."
Workers on Arrival Black Labor in the Making of America (Paperback) by JoeWilliamTrotter 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 JoeWilliamTrotter, 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
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
"Part 1."
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, ..."
Keeping Heart 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
"“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, ..."
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,” ..."
"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 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 ..."
"Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, fri ..."
"Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of ArtWith an introduction by Deborah Willis The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles Teenie Harris (1908 1998). But it s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friend ..."
Race and Renaissance(1st Edition) African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II (John D.S. and Aida C. Truxall Books) by JoeWilliamTrotter, Professor Jared N. Day Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4391-4, ISBN: 0-8229-4391-3
"African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s, Pittsburgh has been a force for change in American race and class relations. "Race and Renaissance" presents the first history of African A ..."
African-American Workers An Urban Perspective, from the American Revolution to the Present by JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, Published 2008 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00070-8, ISBN: 0-465-00070-3
" 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 An Urban Perspective from the American Revolution to the Present by JoeWilliamTrotter Paperback, Published 2005 by Perseus Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00178-1, ISBN: 0-465-00178-5
"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 ..."