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The African American Urban Experience. Historical, Contemporary, and Comparative Perspectives.
. Ed(S): Trotter, Joe; Lewis, Earl; Hunter, Tera W.
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Description for The African American Urban Experience. Historical, Contemporary, and Comparative Perspectives.
Paperback. In order to illuminate 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. Editor(s): Trotter, Joe; Lewis, Earl; Hunter, Tera W. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 495.
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 One did African Americans move into cities in large numbers, and only during World War Two 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 ... Read more
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 One did African Americans move into cities in large numbers, and only during World War Two 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312294656
SKU
V9780312294656
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About . Ed(S): Trotter, Joe; Lewis, Earl; Hunter, Tera W.
JAMES R. BARRETT University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign THOMAS BUCHANAN University of Nebraska at Omaha WILLIAM A. DARITY University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ALAN DAWLEY The College of New Jersey CHRIS FRIDAY Western Washington University KAREN J. GIBSON Portland State University CAMILLE GUERIN-GONZALES University of Colorado JAMES OLIVER HORTON George Washington University RONALD L. LEWIS West Virginia University ... Read more
Reviews for The African American Urban Experience. Historical, Contemporary, and Comparative Perspectives.
Historians and general readers alike owe a debt to Joe W. Trotter, Earl Lewis, and Tera W. Hunter for this wide-ranging, deep-running, interdisciplinary study of African-American urban history. Placing African Americans at the center of their investigation, they show the complexities of class, gender, and race in urban life. This fresh and important history is essential reading for anyone interested ... Read more