{"product_id":"african-americans-in-pennsylvania-shifting-historical-perspectives-9780271016870","title":"African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the onset of the modern civil rights and black power movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s through recent times  scholarship on Pennsylvanias African American experience proliferated. Unfortunately  much of it is scattered in books and journals that are not easily accessible. Under the editorship of Joe W. Trotter and Eric Ledell Smith  African Americans in Pennsylvania brings together an outstanding array of this scholarship and makes it accessible to a wider audience  including general as well as professional students of the black experience. This volume  co-published with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission  offers the most comprehensive history of the states black history to date. Chapters emphasize the interplay of class and race from the origins of the Commonwealth during the seventeenth century  through the era of deindustrialization in the late twentieth century. We see not only poor and working-class people but also educated business and professional people. And although scholarship has traditionally focused on the experiences of black men  this volume includes significant research on black women. Most important  this volume suggests a conceptual framework for a historical synthesis of the states African American experience. In his introduction  Trotter assesses the strengths and limitations of existing scholarship  showing how it is built on the contributions of nineteenth-century pioneers as well as those of the first generation of professional historians  including W. E. B. Du Bois  Richard R. Wright  and Edward Raymond Turner. Chapters are grouped into four interlocking parts that correspond to important changes in Pennsylvanias political economy. Each part includes a brief substantive introduction that ties together the themes of the ensuing chapters. This format enables readers to develop their own synthesis of key socioeconomic and political changes in the states African American experience over more than three centuries of time. African Americans in Pennsylvania shows how ordinary people have influenced the culture  institutions  and politics of African American communities in Pennsylvania. In the process  it documents the ways that black people have influenced  and continue to influence  the state as a whole. Contributors are Elijah Anderson  John F. Bauman  R. J. M. Blackett  John E. Bodnar  Carolyn Leonard Carson  Dennis C. Dickerson  Gerald G. Eggert  V. P. Franklin  Laurence Glasco  Peter Gottlieb  Theodore Hershberg  Leroy T. Hopkins  Norman P. Hummon  Emma Jones Lapsansky  Janice Sumler Lewis  Frederic Miller  Edward K. Muller  Gary B. Nash  Merl E. Reed  Harry C. Silcox  Jean R. Soderlund  and Joe W. Trotter  Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651824934965,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271016876","price":38.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271016870.jpg?v=1781841313","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/african-americans-in-pennsylvania-shifting-historical-perspectives-9780271016870","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}