Marcus Anthony Hunter

Black Citymakers

How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

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Produktbeschreibung

Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro over the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• 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