From the onset of the modern civil rights and black power
movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s through recent times,
scholarship on Pennsylvania's African American experience
proliferated. Unfortunately, much of it is scattered in books and
journals that are not easily accessible. Under the editorship of
Joe W. Trotter and Eric Ledell Smith, African Americans in
Pennsylvania brings together an outstanding array of this
scholarship and makes it accessible to a wider audience, including
general as well as professional students of the black
experience.
This volume, co-published with the Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, offers the most comprehensive history of the
state's black history to date. Chapters emphasize the interplay of
class and race from the origins of the Commonwealth during the
seventeenth century, through the era of deindustrialization in the
late twentieth century. We see not only poor and working-class
people but also educated business and professional people. And
although scholarship has traditionally focused on the experiences
of black men, this volume includes significant research on black
women. Most important, this volume suggests a conceptual framework
for a historical synthesis of the state's African American
experience.
In his introduction, Trotter assesses the strengths and
limitations of existing scholarship, showing how it is built on the
contributions of nineteenth-century pioneers as well as those of
the first generation of professional historians, including W. E. B.
Du Bois, Richard R. Wright, and Edward Raymond Turner. Chapters are
grouped into four interlocking parts that correspond to important
changes in Pennsylvania's political economy. Each part includes a
brief substantive introduction that ties together the themes of the
ensuing chapters. This format enables readers to develop their own
synthesis of key socioeconomic and political changes in the state's
African American experience over more than three centuries of
time.
African Americans in Pennsylvania shows how ordinary people have
influenced the culture, institutions, and politics of African
American communities in Pennsylvania. In the process, it documents
the ways that black people have influenced, and continue to
influence, the state as a whole.
Contributors are Elijah Anderson, John F. Bauman, R. J. M.
Blackett, John E. Bodnar, Carolyn Leonard Carson, Dennis C.
Dickerson, Gerald G. Eggert, V. P. Franklin, Laurence Glasco, Peter
Gottlieb, Theodore Hershberg, Leroy T. Hopkins, Norman P. Hummon,
Emma Jones Lapsansky, Janice Sumler Lewis, Frederic Miller, Edward
K. Muller, Gary B. Nash, Merl E. Reed, Harry C. Silcox, Jean R.
Soderlund, and Joe W. Trotter, Jr.
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