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 . Environmental Conditions Epilogue: Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations Acknowledgments Appendix: Scholarship, Debates, and Sources Notes Bibliography Sources and Permissions Index
"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 "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