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

by Walter Hill and Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

This collection of 12 new essays will tell the story of how the gradual transformation of industrial society into service-driven postindustrial society affected black life and culture in the city between 1900 and 1950, and it will shed light on the development of those forces that wreaked havoc in the lives of African Americans in the succeeding epoch. The book will examine the black urban experience in the northern, southern and western regions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815327498
• ISBN13: 9780815327493
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.9"