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  • African American Urban History since World War II
  • Written by author Kenneth L. Kusmer
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, 8/1/2009
  • Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history of the postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciti
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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


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