Black Urban History at the Crossroads

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Black Urban History at the Crossroads is written by Leslie M. Harris and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822991357 (ISBN 10) and 9780822991359 (ISBN 13).

Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical, and thematic perspectives on the Black urban experience beginning with the Atlantic slave trade. Across ten cutting-edge chapters, leading scholars explore the many ways that urban Black people across the United States built their own communities; crafted their own strategies for self-determination; and shaped the larger economy, culture, and politics of the urban environment and of their cities, regions, and nation. This volume not only highlights long-running changes over time and space, from preindustrial to emerging postindustrial cities, but also underscores the processes by which one era influences the emergence of the next moment in Black urban history.