Kenneth L Kusmer

Biographic Data

ID539794
NAMEKenneth L Kusmer
GIVEN NAMESKenneth L
FAMILY NAMEKusmer
SIGNATUREKUSMER K L
AFFILIATIONSTemple University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen

    Kenneth L KusmerARTICLEJournal of American History2018Cited by: 1

    Using material from almost three hundred films, Stephen Pimpare's book deals creatively with a subject few film historians have examined in depth: “representations of poor and homeless people and the places they have inhabited” in American cinema (p. xiii). The number of movies surveyed allows a broad assessment of how filmmakers have approached a sensitive topic; but equally valuable is Pimpare's relating of trends in scholarly studies of povert…

  • African American Urban History since World War II

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Joe William TrotterBOOKAfrican American Urban History…2009

    Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to American urban history of the postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History Since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject. The first of this volume's five groundbreaking sections focuses on b…

  • River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Joe William Trotter et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley. By Joe William Trotter Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xvi, 200 pp. Cloth, $29.00, ISBN 0-8131-2065-9. Paper, $17.00, ISBN 0-8131-0950-7.) Get access Kenneth L. Kusmer Kenneth L. Kusmer Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1…

  • Urban Odyssey: A Multicultural History of Washington, D.C

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Francine Curro CaryARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1997

  • Ghettos real and imagined: A historical comment on Loïc Wacquant's 'Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto

    Open AccessKenneth L KusmerARTICLEInternational Journal of Urban…1997Cited by: 3

  • African Americans in the City Since World War II: From the Industrial to the Post-Industrial Era

    Open AccessKenneth L KusmerARTICLEJournal of Urban History1995Cited by: 8

  • The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Michael B KatzARTICLEJournal of American History1994

  • From Social Responsibility to Social Welfare in Modern America

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Alan Dawley et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1993

    The outpouring of work in American social and its increasing division into a variety of subfields since mid-1960s has produced something of a backlash in recent years, with a number of prominent scholars decrying lack of synthesis in American historical studies. While many have called for new syntheses, however, few have answered that call. The reason is quite simple: once one moves beyond level of pseudo-textbook, genuine syntheses are difficult…

  • The Next Agenda in American Ethnic History

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Valeria Gennaro LerdaARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Roger LaneARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America. By Roger Lane. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi + 483 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-506566-2.) Get access Kenneth L. Kusmer Kenneth L. Kusmer Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 676–…

  • Ethnicity and Radicalism in Industrializing America

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Gerald Sorin et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1987

  • Urban Black History at the Crossroads

    Open AccessKenneth L KusmerARTICLEJournal of Urban History1987Cited by: 1

  • Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1950

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Raymond A Mohl et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1950. By Raymond A. Mohl and Neil Betten. (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. x + 227 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $23.50.) Get access Kenneth L. Kusmer Kenneth L. Kusmer Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Page 206, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908590 Published: 01 J…

  • Industrialization and Ethnicity: A New Model

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Olivier ZunzARTICLEReviews in American History1983

  • Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North

    Kenneth L Kusmer, James Oliver Horton et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1982

  • The Concept of "Community" in American History

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Thomas Bender et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1979

  • The Social History of Cultural Institutions: The Upper-Class Connection

    Kenneth L Kusmer, Helen Lefkowitz HorowitzARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1979

  • Black Ethos: Northern Urban Negro Life and Thought, 1890-1930

    Kenneth L Kusmer, David Gordon NielsonARTICLEJournal of American History1978

    Journal Article Black Ethos: Northern Urban Negro Life and Thought, 1890–1930. By David Gordon Nielson. (Westport: Greenwood, 1977. xviii + 248 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $14.95.) Get access Kenneth L. Kusmer Kenneth L. Kusmer Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 2, September 1978, Pages 483–484, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894151 Pu…

  • Building the Black Ghetto

    Nancy J Weiss, David M Katzman et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1977

  • A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930

    Louis R Harlan, Kenneth L KusmerARTICLEJournal of American History1977Cited by: 4

    Journal Article A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870–1930. By Kenneth L. Kusmer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. xiv + 305 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.95.) Get access Louis R. Harlan Louis R. Harlan University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 1977, Pages 47…

  • A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930

    Marion Kilson, Kenneth L KusmerARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1977

  • A ghetto takes shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930

    Kenneth L KusmerBOOKA ghetto takes shape1976

  • American Social History: The Boorstin Experience

    Kenneth L KusmerARTICLEReviews in American History1976References: 5

    The completion of first major reinterpretation of American history since Turner, Parrington, and Beard (as the publisher's blurb refers to Daniel J. Boorstin's trilogy The Americans) has been met with a staccato burst of trenchant and often sarcastic criticism followed by deafening silence. This verbal barrage has come not only from radical scholars (of whom it would be expected) but from liberals and even conservatives. One historian who has rec…

  • The Functions of Organized Charity in the Progressive Era: Chicago as a Case Study

    Kenneth L KusmerARTICLEJournal of American History1973Cited by: 7

    Journal Article The Functions of Organized Charity in the Progressive Era: Chicago as a Case Study Get access Kenneth L. Kusmer Kenneth L. Kusmer graduate student University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 3, December 1973, Pages 657–678, https://doi.org/10.2307/1917683 Published: 01 December 1973