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

by Joe William Trotter Jr.

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.