Places of Their Own African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century

Name: Places of Their Own African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780226896250

ISBN-10: 0226896250

ISBN-13: 9780226896250

Edition: 2005

Authors: Andrew Wiese

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For most people, the idea of suburbia conjures up images of expansive lawns, backyard barbeques, swing sets, and SUVs—but not African Americans. As this pioneering work demonstrates, the suburbs have provided a home to black residents in increasing numbers for the past hundred years; in the past two decades alone, the numbers have nearly doubled, to just under twelve million. Places of Their Own begins a hundred years ago, painting an austere portrait of the conditions that early black residents found in isolated, poor suburbs. Andrew Wiese insists, however, that they moved there by choice, withstanding racism and poverty through efforts to shape the landscape to their own needs. Wiese…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Outskirts of Town: The Geography of Black Suburbanization Before 1940



"Who Set You Flowin'?" The Great Migration, Race, and Work in the Suburbs



Places of Their Own: An African American Suburban Dream



"Forbidden Neighbors" White Racism and Black Suburbanites, 1940-1960



Driving a Wedge of Opportunity: Black Suburbanization in the North and West, 1940-1960



"The House I Live In" Race, Class, and Suburban Dreams in the Postwar Period



Separate Suburbanization in the South, 1940-1960



Something Old, Something New: Suburbanization in the Civil Rights Era, 1960-1980



The Next Great Migration: African American Suburbanization in the 1980s and 1990s


Notes


Index