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Title The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century : race, power, and politics of place / [edited by] Robert D. Bullard.

Imprint Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.896 B561me 2007    ---  Available
Description xi, 282 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-265) and index.
Contents Introduction: The significance of race and place / Robert D. Bullard -- The Black metropolis in the era of sprawl / Robert D. Bullard -- Structural racism and spatial Jim Crow / John A. Powell -- Residential apartheid America style / Joe T. Darden -- Dilemma of place and suburbanization of the Black middle class / Sheryll Cashin -- Walling in or walling out : gated communities / Edward J. Blakely and Thomas W. Sanchez -- Spatial mismatch and job sprawl / Michael A. Stoll -- Atlanta : a Black mecca? / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres -- Black New Orleans : before and after Hurricane Katrina / Beverly H. Wright and Robert D. Bullard -- Health disparities in Black Los Angeles / J. Eugene Grigsby III -- Black political power in the new century / David A. Bositis -- Achieving equitable development / Angela Glover Blackwell.
Subject City dwellers -- United States.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Blacks -- Segregation -- United States.
Sociology, Urban -- United States.
Urban geography -- United States.
Human geography -- United States.
Added Author Bullard, Robert D. (Robert Doyle), 1946-
ISBN 0742543293 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742543294 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742543287 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742543285 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2542315
YDXCP 2542314
AU@ 000041116511

 
    
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