IDEALS Home University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign logo The Alma Mater The Main Quad

Prairie fires: urban rebellions as black working class politics in three Midwestern cities

Show full item record

Bookmark or cite this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34444

Files in this item

File Description Format
PDF Howard_Ashley.pdf (2MB) Restricted to U of Illinois (no description provided) PDF
Title: Prairie fires: urban rebellions as black working class politics in three Midwestern cities
Author(s): Howard, Ashley
Director of Research: Cha-Jua, Sundiata K.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Cha-Jua, Sundiata K.
Doctoral Committee Member(s): Barrett, James R.; Lang, Clarence E.; Greenberg, Cheryl L.
Department / Program: History
Discipline: History
Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree: Ph.D.
Genre: Dissertation
Subject(s): African Americans
riots
rebellion
Midwestern
working-class
Omaha, NE
Milwaukee, WI
Cincinnati, OH
Abstract: This study investigates the social, economic and political upheavals caused by the urban rebellions of the 1960s. Using Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Omaha, Nebraska as case studies, this dissertation argues that the uprisings were historically informed acts of resistance, which demonstrated a Midwestern, gendered, and working-class character. Prairie Fires registers the significant impact the rebellions had not only in transforming the consciousness of African Americans but also in altering the relationship between Blacks, urban communities, and the State as well as highlighting class fractures within Black politics. This interpretative lens validates the black urban rebellions not only as legitimate responses to oppression, but part of an American tradition of working class insurrection.
Issue Date: 2012-09-18
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34444
Rights Information: Copyright 2012 Ashley Howard
Date Available in IDEALS: 2012-09-18
Date Deposited: 2012-08
 
Items in IDEALS are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show full item record

Item Statistics

  • Total Downloads: 3
  • Downloads this Month: 0
  • Downloads Today: 0

Browse

My Account

Information

Access Key