The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and GenderThe essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African American migration which began in the early twentieth century. Southern Historian As an overview of a field in transition, this is a valuable and deeply thought provoking anthology. Pennsylvania History . . . provocative and informative . . . Louisiana History The papers themselves are uniformly strong, and read together cast interesting light upon one