Title:	African American Urban History Since World War II
Authors:	Kenneth L., Kusmer Joe W., Trotter
Keywords:	Urban African Americans—History— 20th centur
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	University of Chicago
Description:	Until the last quarter of the twentieth century, research on slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction dominated historical scholarship on the African American experience. Even as the mass migrations during and after World Wars I and II transformed African Americans into the most rapidly urbanizing sector of the U.S. population, historians only slowly joined demographers, sociologists, and economists in studying these phenomena. In the wake of the urban riots of the 1960s, however, historians gave increasing attention to black urban history. This development paralleled the emergence of urban and social history in a broader way, as historians began to study how the average person had influenced the historical development of the United States. By the turn of the twenty-first century, African American urban history had emerged as one of the most prolific and exciting areas in U.S. and African American historical scholarship, a research area as important in its way as had been such traditional scholarly foci as slavery or black life and race relations in the segregation-era South. Until the last quarter of the twentieth century, research on slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction dominated historical scholarship on the African American experience. Even as the mass migrations during and after World Wars I and II transformed African Americans into the most rapidly urbanizing sector of the U.S. population, historians only slowly joined demographers, sociologists, and economists in studying these phenomena. In the wake of the urban riots of the 1960s, however, historians gave increasing attention to black urban history. This development paralleled the emergence of urban and social history in a broader way, as historians began to study how the average person had influenced the historical development of the United States. By the turn of the twenty-first century, African American urban history had emerged as one of the most prolific and exciting areas in U.S. and African American historical scholarship, a research area as important in its way as had been such traditional scholarly foci as slavery or black life and race relations in the segregation-era South
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10096
ISBN:	978-0-226-46509-8
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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