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Overview"From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relatively recent 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. By the early 1970s, blacks had not only made the transition from rural to urban settings, but were almost evenly distributed between the cities of the north and the west on the one hand and the south on the other. In their quest for full citizenship rights, economic democracy and release from an oppressive rural past, black southerners turned to urban migration and employment in the nation's industrial sector as a new ""Promised Land"" or ""Flight from Egypt"". In order to illuminate these transformations in African-American urban life, this book brings together urban history, contemporary social, cultural and policy research and comparative perspectives on race, ethnicity and nationality within and across national boundaries." Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. Trotter , E. Lewis , T. HunterPublisher: Palgrave USA Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.693kg ISBN: 9780312294649ISBN 10: 0312294646 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 06 August 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'This fresh and important history is essential reading for anyone interested in American cities. It testifies to the vigor of collaborative scholarship.' - Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, USA Author InformationJOE W. TROTTER is Mellon Bank Professor and Director of the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is one of the foremost historians of African American urban history, and has written numerous books on the topic. - TERA HUNTER is Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her book To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War won numerous awards, including the H.L. Mitchell Award, 1998 (Southern Historical Association); Letitia Brown Memorial Book Prize, 1997 (Association of Black Women's Historians); and Book of the Year Award, 1997 (International Labor History Association). - EARL LEWIS is Dean of the Graduate School, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs-Graduate Studies, and Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan. His publications include In their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History, and, with Robin D.G. Kelley, the eleven-volume, The Young Oxford History of African Americans. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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