African American urban experience Perspectives from the Colonial period to the present
Trotter Joe W.2004
Book
Total copies: 1
Subject: This book explores the transformation of African Americans into a predominantly urban people. It points out that while blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments from the early years of the African slave trade to America, it is only since World War I that African American moved into cities in large numbers, and only during World War II that more blacks resided in cities than in the countryside. In their quest for full citizenship rights, economic democracy, and release from an oppressive rural past, black southerners turned to urban migration and employment in the nation's industrial sector as a new "Promised Land." 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 in order to illuminate these transformations in African American urban life.
Imprint:
New York 2004 Palgrave Macmillan
Collation:
340p
ISBN:
0312294654
Dewey class:
HI.3TRO
Local class:
HI.3/TRO
Language:
English
BRN:
1840591