Joe William Trotter Jr. is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice at Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America and Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism.
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Preface Introduction: The Black Miner in U.S. Labor History 1. African Americans in West Virginia 2. Migration to Southern West Virginia 3. Inequality in the Workplace 4. Community Formation 5. Environmental Conditions Epilogue: Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations Acknowledgments Appendix: Scholarship, Debates, and Sources Notes Bibliography Sources and Permissions Index
"Joe Trotter has had a profound impact on the way I approach African American history both as a scholar and as a teacher. A collection of his groundbreaking work is long overdue." Robert H. Woodrum, author of Everybody Was Black Down There: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields "Joe William Trotter Jr.'s African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry is more than a topical collection of essays by a pioneering scholar summarizing the history and historiography of Black coal miners. At a time when race, class, labor, and structural violence are coming back into sharp thematic focus due to the disproportionate effects of a major global pandemic on many communities of color, Trotter's work is also a prescient--and deeply personal--exploration of the formation and growth of Black working-class communities, institutions, social and cultural networks, and political movements for reform and liberatory change over time." Clarence Lang, Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts and professor of African American studies, Penn State University