Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: Blacks in the Industrial City, 1900-1950

ISBN-13: 9780815327493 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 322 str.

H. Taylor Jr; Helen Taylor; Henry Louis Taylor

Opis

A collection of original essays offering a mixture of analytic and contextual approaches to key questions of the modern urban black experience.

Recenzje

"There are a number of essays that stand out in this collection... important contributions toward understanding the prewar history and implications of the divergent economic, political, and geographic trajectories of the black middle and working classes." -- Journal of American History
"These nine first-rate essays explain why efforts to acquire social standing within middle-class America through home ownership elude the majority of black Americans...Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- Choice

Spis treści

Contents Series Editors' Foreword iv Graham Russell Hodges and Margaret Washington Acknowledgements xi Preface xii Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Walter Hill Prologue 1 Henry Lousi Taylor Jr., and Walter Hill Part I Home and Community Building 27 CHAPTER 1 A Unity of Opposties: The Black College-Educated Elite, Black Workers, and the Community Development ProcessHenry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Song-Ho Ha CHAPTER 2 Creating the Metropolis in Black and White: Black Suburbanization and the Planning Movement in Cincinnatti, 1900-1950 51 Henry Louis Taylor, Jr CHAPTER 3 Municipal Harmony: Cultural Pluralism, Public Recreation, and Race Relations 73Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh CHAPTER 4 From Auburn Avenue to Buttermilk bottom: Class and Community Dynamics among Atlanta's Balcks 109Georgina Hickey CHAPTER 5 Balcks in the Surburban and Rural Fringe 145Andrew Wise PART II Work and Federal Policy 175 CHAPTER 6 African Americans in the U. S Econom: Federal Policy and the Transformation of Work, 1915-1945 177Liesl Miller Orenic and Joe W. Trotter CHAPTER 7 The Battle Against Wage Slavery: The National Urban League, the NAACP, and the Struggle over New Deal Policies 209Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Vicky Dula, and Sigmund Shipp CHAPTER 9 Black Workers, Trade Unions, adn Labor Standards: The Wartime FEPC 251Eileen Boris Epilogue: African Americans and the Dawning of the Postindustrial EraHenry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Mark Naison 275 Contributors 287 Index 291 Economy:

O autorze

Henry L. Taylor Jr., Walter Hill