African American Urban History since World War II Book

Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Kenneth L. Kusmer Joe W. Trotter 1

Part 1 The Second Great Migration and the New Immigration

1 The Second Great Migration: A Historical Overview James N. Gregory 19

2 Blacks, Latinos, and the New Racial Frontier in American Cities of Color: California's Emerging Minority-Majority Cities Albert M. Camarillo 39

3 The Young Lords and the Postwar City: Notes on the Geographical and Structural Reconfigurations of Contemporary Urban Life Johanna Fernández 60

4 Great Expectations: African American and Latino Relations in Phoenix since World War II Matthew C. Whitaker 83

5 Citizens and Workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's Regional Economy since World War II Carmen Teresa Whalen 98

Part 2 The Second Ghetto and the Suburb

6 Realtors and Racism in Working-Class Philadelphia, 1945-1970 David Mcallister 123

7 Deadly Inequalities: Race, Illness, and Poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945 Brett Williams 142

8 "The House I Live In": Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States Andrew Wiese 160

Part 3 Class, Race, and Politics

9 All Across the Nation: Urban Black Activism, North and South, 1965-1975 Heather Ann Thompson 181

10 Harvesting the Crisis: The Newark Uprising, the Kerner Commission, and Writings on Riots Kevin Mumford 203

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 219

12 "Trouble Won't Last": Black Church Activism in Postwar Philadelphia Karl Ellis Johnson 245

13 The Black Professional MiddleClass and the Black Community: Racialized Class Formation in Oakland and the East Bay Eric S. Brown 263

Part 4 Gender, Class, and Social-Welfare Policy

14 Shifting Paradigms of Black Women's Work in the Urban North and West: World War II to the Present Jacqueline Jones 295

15 "Something's Wrong Down Here": Poor Black Women and Urban Struggles for Democracy Rhonda Y. Williams 316

16 Gendering Postwar Urban History: African American Women, Welfare, and Poverty in Philadelphia Lisa Levenstein 337

Part 5 Culture, Consumption, and the Black Community

17 African American Consumers since World War II Robert E. Weems 359

18 Black Dollar Power: Assessing African American Consumerism since 1945 Susannah Walker 376

19 Race, Place, and Memory: African American Tourism in the Postindustrial City Elizabeth Grant 404

Notes 425

Index 513