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Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks´ Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30
Peter Gottlieb
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Description for Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks´ Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30
Paperback. Series: Blacks in the New World. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
"A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books
on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter
Gottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered,
premodern folk, 'utterly unprepared' for the complexities of urban life.
African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploiting
old solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscape
even as it transformed them." -- James Campbell, Northwestern University
"Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition to
... Read more
"A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books
on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter
Gottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered,
premodern folk, 'utterly unprepared' for the complexities of urban life.
African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploiting
old solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscape
even as it transformed them." -- James Campbell, Northwestern University
"Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition to
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Illinois Press Illinois
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Blacks in the New World
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066177
SKU
V9780252066177
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