Black Citymakers How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

Name: Black Citymakers How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
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ISBN: 9780199948130

ISBN-10: 0199948135

ISBN-13: 9780199948130

Edition: 2013

Authors: Marcus Anthony Hunter

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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.Black Citymakersrevisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led anti-urban renewal mobilization, and post-Civil Rights political change from the perspective of the Black Seventh Warders. Drawing on historical, political, and sociological research, Marcus Hunter argues that black Philadelphians were by no means mere…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/28/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.40" wide x 6.50" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Tables, Illustrations, Figures, and Graphs


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



If These Row Homes Could Talk



A Tale of Two Banks



The Night the Roof Caved In



Philadelphia's "Mason-Dixon" Line



Philadelphia's Black Belt



Flash (Mobs) Forward


Methodological Appendix


Notes


Index