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Author Wiese, Andrew.

Title Places of their own [electronic resource] : African American suburbanization in the twentieth century / Andrew Wiese.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 411 p. : ill., maps.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-373) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0226896412 (alk. paper)
9780226896410
9780226896267 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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