The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present

Introduction PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Urban Alliance: The Emergence of Race-Based Populism in the Age of Jackson; J.O.Horton Industrial Slavery: Linking the Periphery and the Core; R.L.Lewis Life on the Mississippi Reconsidered: African-American Steamboat Laborers and the Work Culture of the Antebellum Western Steamboats; T.Buchanan The Nature of Slave Women's Work: A Working Paper on Slavery; B.Stevenson The Brotherly Love for Which This City is Proverbial Should Extend to All; T.Hunter Urban Black Labor in the West, 1849-1940: Reconceptualizing the Image of a Region; Q.Taylor PART II: SOCIAL, SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL, AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES Race, Class and Conceptual Exclusion: The Underclass Concept in Historical Perspective; A.O'Connor Race, Economics and Education in the U.S.: Perspectives on Economic Thought and Methods; S.McElroy Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender; W.A.Darity & P.L.Mason Race, Class and Space: An Examination of Underclass Notions in the Steel and Motor Cities; K.Gibson The Black Community Building Process in Post-Urban Disorder Detroit, 1967-1997: Implications for Public Policy; R.W.Thomas Race, Residence and Economic Vulnerability in a Multi-Ethnic Metropolis: The Case of the African American Male; J.H.Johnson, W.C.Farrell Jr. & J.A.Stalloff PART III: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Asian American Labor and Historical Interpretation; C.Friday Conversing Across Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Region: Latino and Latina Labor History; C.Guerin-Gonzales Race; E.Lewis The Problem of the Twenty-first-Century; A.Dawley