<div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in <u>Black Milwaukee,</u> 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. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">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 <u>Black Milwaukee</u> on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years. </p> </div>