Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45

by Joe William Trotter Jr.

Book Overview

Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252060350
• ISBN13: 9780252060359
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.