Marcus Anthony Hunter

Black Citymakers

How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

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Produktbeschreibung

W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a largely white upper middle class neighborhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780190249670
• ISBN-10: 0190249676
• Artikelnr.: 47864232

Autorenporträt

Marcus Anthony Hunter is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

* Abbreviations
* List of Tables and Figures
* Acknowledgements
* 1. If These Row Homes Could Talk: W.E.B. DuBois, the Philadelphia
Negro, and Political Agency
* 2. A Tale of Two Banks: Economic Collapse and Neighborhood Change
* 3. The Night the Roof Caved In: Tragedy in the Black Seventh Ward and
the Rise of Racialized Public Housing
* 4. Philadelphia's Mason-Dixon Line: Urban Renewal and the Crosstown
Expressway Battle
* 5. Philadelphia's Black Belt: Post-Civil Rights Philadelphia, Black
Politics, and Urban Change
* 6. Flash (Mobs) Forward: Black Citymakers and Urban Change
* Methodological Appendix
* Notes