The New African American Urban History

by Kenneth W. Goings; Raymond A. Mohl

• ISBN13: 9780761903093
• ISBN10: 0761903097
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-20
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

While earlier studies often portrayed African Americans as passive or powerless, as victims of white racism or slum pathologies, this book emphasizes new scholarship which conveys a sense of active involvement, of people empowered, engaged in struggle, living their lives in dignity and shaping their own futures. These ten essays written by prominent scholars, are synergetic in their common thematic approaches and interpretive analyses, with emphasis on the importance of agency among African Americans - an interpretive thrust that has shaped new writing in the field in the past decade.

Table of Contents

Toward a New African American Urban History - Shane White

`It Was a Proud Day'

African Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North, 1741-1834 - Elsa Barkley Brown and Gregg D Kimball

Mapping the Terrain of Black Richmond - Earl Lewis

Connecting Memory, Self, and the Power of Place in African American Urban History - Kenneth W Goings and Gerald L Smith

`Unhidden' Transcripts

Memphis and African American Agency, 1862-1920 - Tera W Hunter

Domination and Resistance

The Politics of Wage Household Labor in New South Atlanta - Robin D G Kelley

`We Are Not What We Seem'

Rethinking Working Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South - Darlene Clark Hine

Black Migration to the Urban Midwest

The Gender Dimension, 1915-1945 - Raymond A Mohl

Making the Second Ghetto in Metropolitan Miami, 1940-1960 - Joe W Trotter

African Americans in the City

The Industrial Era, 1900-1950 - Kenneth L Kusmer

African Americans in the City Since World War II

From the Industrial to the Postindustrial Era