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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joe W. Trotter, Jr. will deliver the 2021 Diaspora Lecture and discuss his latest publication Workers on Arrival: Black Labor and the Making of America. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the Black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the Black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In Workers on Arrival, Trotter refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class’s vast contributions to the making of America. ....
For nearly seven years, the East Side Freedom Library has been a place for producing new knowledge and making connections. The link between African American history and labor history is one such connection. In collaboration with the University of Minnesota Department of History, the Ramsey County Historical Society, and the Labor and Working-Class History Association, ESFL is hosting an online conversation between the two leading scholars of Black labor in the United States: Dr. Joe W. Trotter, Jr., and Dr. William P. Jones. The conversation will take place on Wednesday, February 10 from 6:00-7:00pm. Please register here to get a link to join the program, ....
In the ongoing reckoning over race in America, many of the conversations in this moment are forward-focused. While striving for a more equitable future is imperative, can we really move forward without a comprehensive understanding of the history that got us to this moment? Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson spends the hour looking back at the role of African-Americans in the making of America, specifically through the lens of Black American labor. Listen: Labor history scholar and author Joe Trotter explains the interconnectivity between Black labor, capitalism and the creation of America Guest: Joe Trotter Jr. is the Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE). His latest book is titled “Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.” As far as the origins of this book and why Trotter ....