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The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of 'the
ghetto' over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto
has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies
over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book
allows readers to draw thought-provoking comparisons across time
and space among ghettos that are not usually studied alongside one
another. The volume is structured around four main case studies,
covering the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe,
the Nazis' use of ghettos, the enclosure of African Americans in
segregated areas in the United States, and the extreme segregation
of blacks in South Africa. The contributors explore issues of
discourse, power, and control; examine the internal structures of
authority that prevailed; and document the lived experiences of
ghetto inhabitants. By discussing ghettos as both tools of control
and as sites of resistance, this book offers an unprecedented and
fascinating range of interpretations of the meanings of the
"ghetto" throughout history. It allows us to trace the circulation
of the idea and practice over time and across continents, revealing
new linkages between widely disparate settings. Geographically and
chronologically wide-ranging, The Ghetto in Global History will
prove indispensable reading for all those interested in the history
of spatial segregation, power dynamics, and racial and religious
relations across the globe.
The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of 'the
ghetto' over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto
has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies
over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book
allows readers to draw thought-provoking comparisons across time
and space among ghettos that are not usually studied alongside one
another. The volume is structured around four main case studies,
covering the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe,
the Nazis' use of ghettos, the enclosure of African Americans in
segregated areas in the United States, and the extreme segregation
of blacks in South Africa. The contributors explore issues of
discourse, power, and control; examine the internal structures of
authority that prevailed; and document the lived experiences of
ghetto inhabitants. By discussing ghettos as both tools of control
and as sites of resistance, this book offers an unprecedented and
fascinating range of interpretations of the meanings of the
"ghetto" throughout history. It allows us to trace the circulation
of the idea and practice over time and across continents, revealing
new linkages between widely disparate settings. Geographically and
chronologically wide-ranging, The Ghetto in Global History will
prove indispensable reading for all those interested in the history
of spatial segregation, power dynamics, and racial and religious
relations across the globe.
"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in
the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future
in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter," Otis Trotter writes in
his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle,
Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical
struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings,
the story begins in 1914 with his parents, Joe William Trotter Sr.
and Thelma Odell Foster Trotter, in rural Alabama. By telling his
story alongside the experiences of his parents as well as his
siblings, Otis reveals cohesion and tensions in twentieth-century
African American family and community life in Alabama, West
Virginia, and Ohio. This engaging chronicle illuminates the
journeys not only of a black man born with heart disease in the
southern Appalachian coalfields, but of his family and community.
It fills an important gap in the literature on an underexamined
aspect of American experience: the lives of blacks in rural
Appalachia and in the nonurban endpoints of the Great Migration.
Its emotional power is a testament to the importance of ordinary
lives.
"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in
the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future
in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter," Otis Trotter writes in
his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle,
Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical
struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings,
the story begins in 1914 with his parents, Joe William Trotter Sr.
and Thelma Odell Foster Trotter, in rural Alabama. By telling his
story alongside the experiences of his parents as well as his
siblings, Otis reveals cohesion and tensions in twentieth-century
African American family and community life in Alabama, West
Virginia, and Ohio. This engaging chronicle illuminates the
journeys not only of a black man born with heart disease in the
southern Appalachian coalfields, but of his family and community.
It fills an important gap in the literature on an underexamined
aspect of American experience: the lives of blacks in rural
Appalachia and in the nonurban endpoints of the Great Migration.
Its emotional power is a testament to the importance of ordinary
lives.
Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in
relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe
William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet
also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee
were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers.
The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of
Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new
preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban
history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War
roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the
post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all
by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues -
William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L.
Phillips - assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the
study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.
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