White Flight/Black Flight The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood

Name: White Flight/Black Flight The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood
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ISBN: 9780801477287

ISBN-10: 080147728X

ISBN-13: 9780801477287

Edition: 2011

Authors: Rachael A. Woldoff

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Urban residential integration is often fleeting-a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book presents a portrait of the life of a working-class neighborhood in the aftermath of white flight, illustrating cultural clashes that accompany racial change as well as common values that transcend race, from the perspectives of three different groups who are living it: white stayers, black pioneers, and "second-wave" blacks. Rachael A. Woldoff offers a fresh look at race and neighborhoods by…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Rachael A. Woldoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. She is coauthor of High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Urban Redevelopment .



Acknowledgments


Introduction: What Happens to a Neighborhood after White Flight?



The Parkmont Environment



Choosing Parkmont: Whites Staying and Blacks Pioneering



Stella Zuk's Story: Choosing to Stay



Cross-Racial Caregiving: Pioneers Helping Stayers to Age in place



Ken Wilkinson: Striving for the Next Generation



Black Flight: Consequences of Neighborhood Cultural Conflict



Billy's Narrative: Clashing in Parkmont



Skipping School: The Negative Effects of a Neighborhood Institution



Conclusions: Understanding the Cultural Dynamics of Neighborhood Change


Appendix


References


Index