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Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915–45. By Joe William Trotter, Jr. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xvii plus 302 pp.)

James Oliver Horton
- 01 Dec 1986 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 2, pp 388-390
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This article is published in Journal of Social History.The article was published on 1986-12-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Proletariat.

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The Limits of Out-Migration for the Black Middle Class

TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that certain developments contributed to disinterest in research on the environs of the black middle class in favor of intensive study of the urban poor.
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The Historical Demography of Racial Segregation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a measure of residential segregation that does not equate spatial with social proximity, which has been increasingly subject to critique among demographers and ethnographers and becomes...

Bargaining for Security: The Rise of the Pension and Social Insurance Program of the United Steelworkers of America, 1941-1960

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TL;DR: Himes et al. as discussed by the authors studied the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) quest to win long term welfare security for its members from 1941 to 1960, focusing on external and internal events and issues that led the union to seek pensions and social insurance at the bargaining table in 1949, and ultimately, to enhance their private security at bargaining table throughout the 1950s.
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Racial/Ethnic Intermixing in Intra-Urban Space and Socioeconomic Context: Columbus, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between intra-urban intermixing and neighborhood characteristics employs Entropy-type Indices (E') of six racial/ethnic groups for 2000 and 1990-2000 change, regressed against principal components representing demographic, socioeconomic, and built-environment characteristics.
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Black milwaukee's challenge to the cycle of urban miseducation: Milwaukee's African American Immersion schools

TL;DR: Milwaukee's two African American Immersion schools, which infused African and African American themes into the state's prescribed curriculum, were opened in 1990 and 1991 as discussed by the authors, respectively, and became magnet schools.