Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Urban Alliance: The Emergence of Race-Based Populism in the Age of Jackson; J.O.Horton Industrial Slavery: Linking the Periphery and the Core; R.L.Lewis Life on the Mississippi Reconsidered: African-American Steamboat Laborers and the Work Culture of the Antebellum Western Steamboats; T.Buchanan The Nature of Slave Women's Work: A Working Paper on Slavery; B.Stevenson The Brotherly Love for Which This City is Proverbial Should Extend to All; T.Hunter Urban Black Labor in the West, 1849-1940: Reconceptualizing the Image of a Region; Q.Taylor PART II: SOCIAL, SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL, AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES Race, Class and Conceptual Exclusion: The Underclass Concept in Historical Perspective; A.O'Connor Race, Economics and Education in the U.S.: Perspectives on Economic Thought and Methods; S.McElroy Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender; W.A.Darity & P.L.Mason Race, Class and Space: An Examination of Underclass Notions in the Steel and Motor Cities; K.Gibson The Black Community Building Process in Post-Urban Disorder Detroit, 1967-1997: Implications for Public Policy; R.W.Thomas Race, Residence and Economic Vulnerability in a Multi-Ethnic Metropolis: The Case of the African American Male; J.H.Johnson, W.C.Farrell Jr. & J.A.Stalloff PART III: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Asian American Labor and Historical Interpretation; C.Friday Conversing Across Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Region: Latino and Latina Labor History; C.Guerin-Gonzales Race; E.Lewis The Problem of the Twenty-first-Century; A.Dawley

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Tera Hunter is the author of "To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War", which won numerous awards. Earl Lewis is the author of "In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk", "African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History" and, with Robin D.G. Kelley, the 11-volume "The Young Oxford History of African Americans".

About the Author

JOE W. TROTTER is Mellon Bank Professor and Director of the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is one of the foremost historians of African American urban history, and has written numerous books on the topic. - TERA HUNTER is Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her book To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War won numerous awards, including the H.L. Mitchell Award, 1998 (Southern Historical Association); Letitia Brown Memorial Book Prize, 1997 (Association of Black Women's Historians); and Book of the Year Award, 1997 (International Labor History Association). - EARL LEWIS is Dean of the Graduate School, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs-Graduate Studies, and Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan. His publications include In their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History, and, with Robin D.G. Kelley, the eleven-volume, The Young Oxford History of African Americans.

Reviews

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 in American cities. It testifies to the vigor of collaborative scholarship. - Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University, author of Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol and Southern History Across the Color Line. "An intellectually enchanting collection - a state of the field volume that brings African American history to life. The distinguished editors provide both an essential reference work and an exciting undergraduate reader." - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America "Trotter, Lewis, and Hunter have assembled a lively collection of essays covering topics as wide-ranging as the history of slavery, public policy, gender, and labor. This volume offers a valuable introduction to the state of social scientific and historical research on blacks in urban America." - Thomas J. Sugrue, Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and Sociology Chair of the History Graduate Group University of Pennsylvania