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The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban
America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed
historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history
literature added to the canon since the publication of the second
edition. The authors' extensively revised introductions and the
fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the
preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on
the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects
of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change
that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as
technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt
cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are
examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available
that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the
most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.
In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out
against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the
role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged
that many American women refused to retreat from public life during
these years. Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish
women sought opportunities and created images that defied the
stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique."
As workers with or without pay, social justice activists, community
builders, entertainers, and businesswomen, most Jewish women
championed responsibilities outside their homes. Jewishness played
a role in shaping their choices, shattering Friedan's assumptions
about how middle-class women lived in the postwar years. Focusing
on ordinary Jewish women as well as prominent figures such as Judy
Holliday, Jennie Grossinger, and Herman Wouk's fictional Marjorie
Morningstar, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore
here the wide canvas upon which American Jewish women made their
mark after the Second World War.
Using unusual and revealing primary materials from the careers of
two remarkable Jewish women, Raymond Mohl offers an original
interpretation of the role of Jewish civil rights activists in
promoting racial change in post-World War II Miami. He describes
the city's political climate after the war as characterized by
segregation, aggressive anti-Semitism, and a powerful strain of
cold war McCarthyism. In this hostile environment the dynamic
leadership of two northern newcomers, Matilda "Bobbi" Graff and
Shirley M. Zoloth, played a critical role in the city's campaign
for racial reform. This analysis of the movement between 1945 and
1960 substantiates a new but now dominant interpretation of civil
rights history that sees grassroots action as the powerful engine
that drove racial change. It emphasizes the major role played by
women in the cause and documents the variety of civil rights
experiences of Jews who migrated to Miami in large numbers during
the mid-century decades. Committed to social justice, they built
activist organizations, challenged segregationists and
anti-Semites, and worked with black activists to break down Jim
Crow barriers.
In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out
against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the
role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged
that many American women refused to retreat from public life during
these years. Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish
women sought opportunities and created images that defied the
stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique."
As workers with or without pay, social justice activists, community
builders, entertainers, and businesswomen, most Jewish women
championed responsibilities outside their homes. Jewishness played
a role in shaping their choices, shattering Friedan's assumptions
about how middle-class women lived in the postwar years. Focusing
on ordinary Jewish women as well as prominent figures such as Judy
Holliday, Jennie Grossinger, and Herman Wouk's fictional Marjorie
Morningstar, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore
here the wide canvas upon which American Jewish women made their
mark after the Second World War.
"A must-read for anyone interested in the history of civil rights,
the roles and varied motivations of southern Jews in the movement,
the interaction of blacks and Jews, the role of hate-groups and the
anti-communist hysteria in silencing or harassing the forces of
positive change, and the specific place of Miami, Miami Beach, and
Florida in the struggle. Raymond Mohl's writing style is dynamic
and fully accessible for the lay as well as scholarly audience that
I expect this work will attract."--Mark K. Bauman, Atlanta
Metropolitan College Using unusual and revealing primary materials
from the careers of two remarkable Jewish women, Raymond Mohl
offers an original interpretation of the role of Jewish civil
rights activists in promoting racial change in post-World War II
Miami. He describes the city's political climate after the war as
characterized by segregation, aggressive anti-Semitism, and a
powerful strain of cold war McCarthyism. In this hostile
environment the dynamic leadership of two northern newcomers,
Matilda "Bobbi" Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth, played a critical role
in the city's campaign for racial reform. Working with the Miami
chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, established in 1948, Graff
was instrumental in the organization's stand against the Ku Klux
Klan, its protests against lynchings and police brutality, and its
work with Florida's black civil rights leaders such as Harry T.
Moore. With the Miami Congress of Racial Equality, Zoloth helped to
launch a lunch counter sit-in campaign (a year before the more
famous student sit-ins of 1960) that ultimately resulted in the
desegregation of downtown public accommodations. This analysis of
the movement between 1945 and 1960 substantiates a new but now
dominant interpretation of civil rights history that sees
grassroots action as the powerful engine that drove racial change.
It emphasizes the major role played by women in the cause and
documents the variety of civil rights experiences of Jews who
migrated to Miami in large numbers during the mid-century decades.
Committed to social justice, they built activist organizations,
challenged segregationists and anti-Semites, and worked with black
activists to break down Jim Crow barriers. Original documents
written by both women, including Graff's autobiographical memoir,
demonstrate a level of Jewish activism, especially by women, that
was unique for the time and place--the postwar American South.
Their own words vividly describe fear, harassment, family and
community pressures, government intrigue, and individual betrayal.
As Mohl's groundbreaking history illustrates, the perseverance of
these women and their small band of supporters is a testament to
their strength and an inspiration for continued reform in America.
Raymond A. Mohl, professor of history at the University of Alabama,
Birmingham, is the editor of Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical
Perspectives on a Region and the coeditor of The New
African-American Urban History and Urban Policy in
Twentieth-Century America
In recent decades, an exciting new scholarship has emerged that is
changing the way African American urban history is perceived. While
earlier studies often portrayed African Americans as passive and
powerless or as victims of white racism and slum pathologies, The
New African American Urban History emphasizes the "new" scholarship
that conveys a sense of active involvement. It supports the view of
African Americans as people empowered, engaged in struggle, living
their lives with dignity, and shaping their own futures. In this
perceptive volume, contributors examine the great modern migrations
of African Americans to the city, the creation and expansion of
black communities, and black life and culture--with special
emphasis on working-class culture. This collecton of essays,
written by prominent scholars, comes together in perfect harmony
with a common thematic approach and interpretive analysis, which
has shaped new writing in the field for the past decade. Both
groundbreaking and inspiring, The New African American Urban
History will prove to be an invaluable resource for students and
professionals in urban and ethnic studies.
Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South offers a
collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the
little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in
the American southeast. In sharp contrast to the "melting pot"
reputation of the United States, the American South-with its
history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement-has
been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far
East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and
Chizuru Saeki provide a collection of essential essays that
restores and explores an overlooked part of the South's story-that
of Asian immigration to the region. These essays form a
comprehensive overview of key episodes and issues in the history of
Asian immigrants to the South. During Reconstruction, southern
entrepreneurs experimented with the replacement of slave labor with
Chinese workers. As in the West, Chinese laborers played a role in
the development of railroads. Japanese farmers also played a more
widespread role than is usually believed. Filipino sailors
recruited by the US Navy in the early decades of the twentieth
century often settled with their families in the vicinity of naval
ports such as Corpus Christi, Biloxi, and Pensacola. Internment
camps brought Japanese Americans to Arkansas. Marriages between
American servicemen and Japanese, Korean, Filipina, Vietnamese, and
nationals in other theaters of war created many thousands of
blended families in the South. In recent decades, the South is the
destination of internal immigration as Asian Americans spread out
from immigrant enclaves in West Coast and Northeast urban areas.
Taken together, the book's essays document numerous fascinating
themes: the historic presence of Asians in the South dating back to
the mid-nineteenth century; the sources of numerous waves of
contemporary Asian immigration to the South; and the steady spread
of Asians out from the coastal port cities. Far East, Down South
adds a vital new dimension to popular understanding of southern
history.
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