Places of their own [electronic resource] : African American suburbanization in the twentieth century / Andrew Wiese.
Series: Historical studies of urban AmericaPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: xi, 411 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0226896412 (alk. paper)
- 9780226896410
- 9780226896267 (e-book)
- Suburban African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Suburbanites -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- Social classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations
- 307.74/089/96073 21
- E185.86 .W436 2004eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-373) and index.
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.
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