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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787480403321

Autore

Silver Christopher <1951->

Titolo

The separate city : Black communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968 / / Christopher Silver and John V. Moeser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

0-8131-3091-3

0-8131-6146-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073075

Soggetti

African Americans - Virginia - Richmond - Population

African Americans - Virginia - Richmond - Politics and government

African Americans - Georgia - Atlanta - Population

African Americans - Georgia - Atlanta - Politics and government

African Americans - Tennessee - Memphis - Population

African Americans - Tennessee - Memphis - Politics and government

Richmond (Va.) Race relations

Atlanta (Ga.) Race relations

Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Maps, and Figures; Preface; 1. The Rise of the Separate City; 2. Community Change and Community Leadership; 3. School Desegregation and the Rise of Black Political Independence; 4. Neighborhood Restructuring; 5. Race, Class, and the New Urban Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning,  The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed



markedly from those of their northern counterparts. The African- American community in the South was (and to some extent still is) a physically expansive, distinct, and socially heterogeneous zo