Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32
by Joe W. Trotter
Blacks in the New World (1990)
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How were southern black transformed rural agricultural workers into members of the industrial working class? Joe William Trotter, Jr., examines the unique experience of black coal miners in southern West Virginia between World War l. an the Great Depression, showing how the subtle interplay of race, class, and region altered black people personal and collective existenceTags
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Joe William Trotter, Jr., is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice, and Founder and Director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Black Milwaukee and Coal, Class, and Color.
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- Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32
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- West Virginia, USA
- Original language
- English
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- Nonfiction, History, Economics, Sociology
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- 331.6 — Society, government, & culture Economics Labor economics Workers by ethnic and national origin
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- HD8039 .M62 .U66943 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class By industry or trade
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