Indiana University Press
The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender
Key Metrics
- Joe William Trotter
- Indiana University Press
- Paperback
- 9780253206695
- 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.5 inches
- 0.65 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
The essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African-American migration which began in the early twentieth century. --Southern Historian
As an overview of a field in transition, this is a valuable and deeply thought-provoking anthology. --Pennsylvania History
. . . provocative and informative . . . --Louisiana History
The papers themselves are uniformly strong, and read together cast interesting light upon one another. --Georgia Historical Quarterly
. . . well-written and insightful essays . . . --Journal of American History
This well-researched and well-documented collection represents the latest scholarship on the black migration. --Illinois Historical Journal
. . . an impressive balance of theory and historical content . . . --Indiana Magazine of History
Legions of black Americans left the South to migrate to the jobs of the North, from the meat-packing plants of Chicago to the shipyards of Richmond, California. These essays analyze the role of African Americans in shaping their own geographical movement, emphasizing the role of black kin, friend, and communal network.
Contributors include Darlene Clark Hine, Peter Gottlieb, James R. Grossman, Earl Lewis, Shirley Ann Moore, and Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Author Bio
Joe William Trotter, Jr. is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His latest publication is Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (University of California Press, 2019). Professor Trotter received his BA degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is currently working on a study of African American urban life since the Atlantic slave trade.
Dr. Trotter teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in African American and U. S. urban, labor, and working class history. He has delivered scholarly papers and lectures in a variety of professional forums in the United States and abroad, including institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, and the Middle East. He has served on the boards and committees of numerous professional organizations: Executive Council, OAH; Chair, Nominating Committee, OAH; OAH Program Committee; Executive Council, SHA; Program Committee, SHA; Francis B. Simkins Prize Committee, SHA; Immigration History Society Executive Board; Jameson Fellowship Committee, AHA; Program Committee, Oral History Association; chair of the annual Program Committee of the American Historical Association.
He has also served as a member and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the H. John Heinz III Regional History Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate, and past President of the Labor and Working Class History Association.
Source: Carnegie Mellon University
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