Joe William Trotter, Jr., – author of the groundbreaking Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45, and 2019’s Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America – has become a prolific voice among the ranks of interdisciplinary scholars documenting the case for reparations for people of African descent domestically.[i] Informed by renewed popular demands for racial justice following the COVID-19 pandemic, controversial police shootings, and “Black Lives Matter” organizing during the first Donald Trump presidency, Trotter’s latest work, Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life, insists on “the need to integrate the creative role Read more