Joe William Trotter Jr.

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According to Wikipedia, Joe William Trotter Jr. is a Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an expert in African-American history. Education and career Trotter received his BA degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He presides over numerous committees, including the Executive Councils of the Organization of American Historians and the Society for Historical Archaeology, the Program Committee of the Oral History Association, the Jameson Fellowship and Program Committees of the American Historical Association, as well as Nominating and Program Committees of OAH and Francis B. Simkins Prize and Program Committee of SHA. Trotter also was a member and vice president of the Board of Trustees of the H. John Heinz III Regional History Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate, and past President of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

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Joe William Trotter Jr.'s Published Works

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Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (1986) (141)
The Great migration in historical perspective : new dimensions of race, class, and gender (1993) (91)
Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932 (1990) (68)
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. By Joel Williamson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. vii + 561 pp.) (1986) (49)
The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender. (1993) (44)
The African American Experience (2000) (40)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2011) (36)
African American Urban History since World War II (2009) (30)
CHAPTER 2: Blacks in the Urban North: The "Underclass Question" in Historical Perspective (1993) (25)
African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives (1999) (21)
Introduction to Marginal Centers: Writing Life Histories in the Indian Ocean World (2011) (18)
African American Fraternal Associations in American History: An Introduction (2004) (16)
Race and Class Consciousness Revisited@@@Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932.@@@Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. (1991) (15)
Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862–1882. By Gerald David Jaynes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vii + 351 pp.) (1987) (14)
African-American workers: New directions in U.S. labor historiography (1994) (14)
Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916–30. By Peter Gottlieb. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987, Pp. xiii, 250. $26.95 (1987) (14)
African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915–1930 (2006) (13)
Race and Renaissance (2010) (12)
Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II (2010) (9)
The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2007) (9)
The Great Migration (2002) (9)
Black Milwaukee (2007) (7)
Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations (2003) (7)
The African American urban experience (2004) (7)
Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman (2001) (6)
We Ask Only a Fair Trial: A History of the Black Community of Evansville, Indiana. By Darrel E. Bigham. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. xv + 286 pp. $20.00.) (1989) (6)
Race and Class (1994) (6)
African Americans and the Industrial Revolution (2000) (6)
From a Raw Deal to a New Deal: African Americans 1929-1945 (1996) (5)
The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in the US Coal Industry (2015) (5)
African American urban experience : perspectives from the colonial period to the present (2004) (5)
Hurricane Katrina (2009) (4)
Promise and Limits (2020) (4)
Workers on Arrival (2019) (4)
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City by Destin Jenkins (review) (2021) (4)
African American urban history: Framing a new perspetive (1993) (3)
Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916–1929. Ed. by James R. Grossman. 25 reels with hard copy index. 35 mm microfilm. (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985. $1,700.) (1988) (3)
African Americans in the industrial age : a documentary history, 1915-1945 (1996) (3)
Contesting the Postwar City: Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee (2015) (3)
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. By David Roediger (London: Verso, 1991. x plus 191 pp.) (1992) (3)
Introduction Connecting African American Urban History, Social Science Research, and Policy Debates (2004) (2)
The ghetto in global history : 1500 to the present (2018) (2)
Reflections on the Great Migration to Western Pennsylvania (1995) (2)
Reflections on the African American Experience, Social History, and the Resurgence of Conservatism in American Society (1995) (2)
History of the American Negro: West Virginia Edition (2012) (1)
Surviving depression (2020) (1)
African-American History: Origins, Development, and Current State of the Field (1993) (1)
African American Urban Electoral Politics in the Age of Jim Crow (2018) (1)
Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History (2011) (1)
Making the Afro-American Working Class@@@Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945. (1986) (1)
The Historiography of Black Workers in the Urban Midwest: Toward a Regional Synthesis (2018) (1)
Introduction: Urban and Labor History: Old and New Connections (2004) (1)
History of the American Negro (2012) (1)
African American Fraternal Organizations in American History: An Introduction (2004) (1)
Confronting Decline and Facilitating Renaissance (2020) (0)
Before Operation Dixie (2020) (0)
An Interview with Myrven Caines, M.D. (1995) (0)
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878–1921. By Daniel Letwin (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv plus 289pp.) (1999) (0)
Combating Inequality in the Postwar City (2020) (0)
Introduction (2004) (0)
Book Reviews: Guide to African American Resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives, by Ruth E. Hodge (2003) (0)
Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780–1980. By Ronald L. Lewis (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987. xv + 239 pp.) (1988) (0)
Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. By Priscilla Long · New York: Paragon House, 1989. xxv + 420 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 (1990) (0)
Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson (New York: State University Press, 1986. pp. x, 323) (1988) (0)
The Civil Rights Struggle: Early Days in Southern West Virginia (2014) (0)
African American History and the JAEH: The First Twenty-Five Years (2006) (0)
Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations. By Peter M. Rutkoff and William Scott (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2010. xviii plus 408 pp.) (2011) (0)
Navigating Civil Rights and Black Power Struggles (2020) (0)
Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study. By Jonathan W. McLeod (Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies/Institute of Industrial Relations, 1989. 135 pp.) (1991) (0)
From the Guest Editors: Pittsburgh's Communities of Color (1995) (0)
Book Review: What's a Coal Miner to Do?: The Mechanization of Coal Mining, by Keith Dix (1989) (0)
The Continuing Transformation of Labor and Working-Class History: a Review Essay (1999) (0)
Quest for Jobs and Housing (2020) (0)
Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement (2020) (0)
Group Portrait with Lady@@@The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class and Gender. (1992) (0)
Book Review: Historical Studies: The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (1990) (0)
Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2002) (0)
Amanda I. Seligman. Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 301. $25.00 (2007) (0)
A Forum on the Politics of Skills (2022) (0)
The Social Dynamics of Color, Class, and Gender: Afro-American Work and Community in the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields, 1915-1932. (1988) (0)
Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory. By Dianne M. Pinderhughes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xix + 318 pp. $29.95.) (1988) (0)
African American Migration from the Colonial Era to the Present (2016) (0)
Book Review: Historical: Perspectives on American Labor History: Problems of Synthesis (1992) (0)
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society. Ed. by Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams, Jr. (Washington: National Academy Press, 1989. xvi + 608 pp. $35.00.) (1990) (0)
Sociology (1992) (0)
suggests a new interpretation. Unlike emphases on "social strain" the- (2016) (0)
Special Issue “More Expendable than ‘Essential’: Black Workers’ Rights and Racial Class Struggles Under the COVID Crisis” (2022) (0)
Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations (review) (2011) (0)
United States (1990) (0)
Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863–1923. By Eric Arnesen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi plus 353 pp.) (1992) (0)
The Germans in Missouri, 1900-1918: Prohibition, Neutrality, and Assimilation.@@@German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective.@@@Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890.@@@Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Pro (1986) (0)
Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration (review) (1999) (0)
U.S. and African American ghettos (2017) (0)
Perspectives on Our National Experience: Race, Class, and Gender (1990) (0)
Book Review: History: From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933–1972 (1999) (0)
Rethinking the Boundaries of the Modern Freedom Struggle (2006) (0)
Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (review) (2005) (0)
Sociology (1992) (0)
Foreword to the new edition (2000) (0)
Establishing a New Social Service Regime (2020) (0)

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