Black Citymakers - How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

Zusatztext Hunter performs the kind of delicate theoretical acrobatics that make this book a significant contribution to the sociological literature on the causes, consequences, and, most important, responses to social inequality. Scholars and students interested in historical, political, and urban sociology as well as race, inequality, and social movements should read this book. Informationen zum Autor Marcus Anthony Hunter is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro over the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Summary

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

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• Authors: Marcus Anthony Hunter, Marcus Anthony (Assistant Professor of Soc Hunter, Marcus Anthony (Assistant Professor of Sociology Hunter, Hunter Marcus Anthony
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9780190249670
• ISBN: 978-0-19-024967-0
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Pennsylvania, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Urban communities, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Urban communities / city life, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity