The African American Urban Experience

Chapter 1 Introduction Connecting African American Urban History, Social Science Research, and Policy Debates

Chapter 2 Urban Alliances: the Emergence of Race-Based Populism in the Age of Jackson

Chapter 3 Industrial Slavery: Linking the Periphery and the Core

Chapter 4 Black Life on the Mississippi: African American Steamboat Laborers and the Work Culture of Antebellum Western Steamboats

Chapter 5 The ‘Brotherly Love’ for Which This City is Proverbial Should Extend To All” the Everyday Lives of Working-Class Women in Philadelphia and Atlanta in the 1890S

Chapter 6 Urban Black Labor in the west, 1849–1949: Reconceptualizing the Image of a Region

Chapter 7 Race and Class in Chicago-School Sociology: the Underclass Concept in Historical Perspective

Chapter 8 Black + Woman = Work: Gender Dimensions of the African American Economic Experience

Chapter 9 Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender

Chapter 10 Race, Class, and Space: an Examination of Underclass Notions in the Steel and Motor Cities

Chapter 11 The Black Community Building Process in Post-Urban Disorder Detroit, 1967–1997

Chapter 12 Asian American Labor and Historical Interpretation

Chapter 13 Conversing Across Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender, and Region: Latino and Latina Labor History

Chapter 14 Ethnic and Racial Fragmentation: Toward a Reinterpretation of a Local Labor Movement

Chapter 15 Is Race the Problem of The 21St Century?