{"product_id":"black-milwaukee-the-making-of-an-industrial-proletariat-191545-9780252074103","title":"Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45\u003c\/strong\u003e by Trotter  Jr., Joe William. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780252074103.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther 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.\nThis 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 Milwaukee’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 Trotter’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44954509279285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252074106","price":48.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252074103_c17d58ec-3d4f-445d-85dd-07df62e80f4e.jpg?v=1778683839","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/black-milwaukee-the-making-of-an-industrial-proletariat-191545-9780252074103","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}