African American Urban History since World War II
African American Urban History since World War II
Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe 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 volume’s five groundbreaking sections focuses on black migration and Latino immigration, examining tensions and alliances that emerged between African Americans and other groups. Exploring the challenges of residential segregation and deindustrialization, later sections tackle such topics as the real estate industry’s discriminatory practices, the movement of middle-class blacks to the suburbs, and the influence of black urban activists on national employment and social welfare policies. Another group of contributors examines these themes through the lens of gender, chronicling deindustrialization’s disproportionate impact on women and women’s leading roles in movements for social change. Concluding with a set of essays on black culture and consumption, this volume fully realizes its goal of linking local transformations with the national and global processes that affect urban class and race relations.
552 pages | 5 line drawings, 16 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2009
Historical Studies of Urban America
History: American History, Urban History
Sociology: Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations, Urban and Rural Sociology
Reviews
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter
Part 1: The Second Great Migration and the New Immigration
Chapter 1: The Second Great Migration: A Historical Overview
James N. Gregory
Chapter 2: Blacks, Latinos, and the New Racial Frontier in American Cities of Color: California’s Emerging Minority-Majority Cities
Albert M. Camarillo
Chapter 3: The Young Lords and the Postwar City: Notes on the Geographical and Structural Reconfigurations of Contemporary Urban Life
Johanna Fernández
Chapter 4: Great Expectations: African American and Latino Relations in Phoenix since World War II
Matthew C. Whitaker
Chapter 5: Citizens and Workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia’s Regional Economy since World War II
Carmen Teresa Whalen
Part 2: The Second Ghetto and the Suburb
Chapter 6: Realtors and Racism in Working-Class Philadelphia, 1945–1970
David McAllister
Chapter 7: Deadly Inequalities: Race, Illness, and Poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945
Brett Williams
Chapter 8: “The House I Live In”: Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States
Andrew Wiese
Part 3: Class, Race, and Politics
Chapter 9: All Across the Nation: Urban Black Activism, North and South, 1965–1975
Heather Ann Thompson
Chapter 10: Harvesting the Crisis: The Newark Uprising, the Kerner Commission, and Writings on Riots
Kevin Mumford
Chapter 11: Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945–1969
Thomas J. Sugrue
Chapter 12: “Trouble Won’t Last”: Black Church Activism in Postwar Philadelphia
Karl Ellis Johnson
Chapter 13: The Black Professional Middle Class and the Black Community: Racialized Class Formation in Oakland and the East Bay
Eric S. Brown
Part 4: Gender, Class, and Social-Welfare Policy
Chapter 14: Shifting Paradigms of Black Women’s Work in the Urban North and West: World War II to the Present
Jacqueline Jones
Chapter 15: “Something’s Wrong Down Here”: Poor Black Women and Urban Struggles for Democracy
Rhonda Y. Williams
Chapter 16: Gendering Postwar Urban History: African American Women, Welfare, and Poverty in Philadelphia
Lisa Levenstein
Part 5: Culture, Consumption, and the Black Community
Chapter 17: African American Consumers since World War II
Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Chapter 18: Black Dollar Power: Assessing African American Consumerism since 1945
Susannah Walker
Chapter 19: Race, Place, and Memory: African American Tourism in the Postindustrial City
Elizabeth Grant
Index