Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco

by Douglas Henry Daniels

Overview

The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transportation boom following the Gold Rush; others traveled as employees of wealthy individuals.

Douglas Daniels argues for the importance of going beyond the written record and urban statistics in examining the life of a minority community. He has studied photographs from family albums and interviewed members of old black San Francisco families in his effort to provide the first nuanced picture of the lives of black San Franciscans from the 1860s to the 1940s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520351059
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Douglas Henry Daniels is Associate Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

	Map and Tables	ix
	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xvii
1	Introduction	3
2	Pioneers	12
3	Optimists	25
4	Survivors	44
5	Scouts	59
6	Neighbors	75
7	Leaders	106
8	Cosmopolites	123
9	Rounders	143
10	Newcomers	162
Appendix	The Informants	177
	Notes	183
	Bibliographical Essay	213
	Index	223