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.Â  The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotterâ€™s ground-breaking study.Â  , ,Â , ,This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukeeâ€™s black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotterâ€™s colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original ,Black Milwaukee, on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.Â  , Â  Â  
Labor,History,Nonfiction,Race,Cultural,African American
Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45