" 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. ..."
"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 ..."
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,” ..."
2(1st Edition) The African American Experience, Volume II: From Reconstruction by JoeWilliamTrotter 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."
"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 ..."
1(1st Edition) The African American Experience, Volume I by JoeWilliamTrotter 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."
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
"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 ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
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. ..."
""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 ..."
African Americans in Pennsylvania(1st Edition) Shifting Historical Perspectives: Shifting Historical Perspectives by JoeWilliamTrotter, 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 ..."
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, ..."
"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 ..."