Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2022
Abstract
Joe William Trotter, Jr., ranks among the pantheon of America's most influential historians. For more than forty years, beginning with his 1985 work Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915–1945, he has chronicled the African American experience, most profoundly on the centrality of the Black working class to America's economic, industrial, cultural, and political development. His pioneering and provocative work examining the intersections of race, class, labor, urbanization, and gender within diverse urban- and rural-industrial settings has challenged prevailing historiography and expanded our understanding of Black migration, labor relations, and community formation. It has also added important dimensionality, complexity, and agency to Black workers, families, and communities within the historical narrative.
Recommended Citation
Fain, Cicero M. Review of African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry, by Joe William Trotter, Jr.. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 120, no. 1 (2022): 67-69. https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2022.0021.
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