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Andrew Wiese

Places of Their Own

African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century

422 pages, 42 halftones, 14 maps, 6 tables  6 x 9  © 2003
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226896250   Published November 2005

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1- The Outskirts of Town: The Geography of Black Suburbanization before 1940
Chapter 2- "Who Set You Flowin'?": The Great Migration, Race, and Work in the Suburbs
Chapter 3- Places of Their Own: An African American Suburban Dream
Chapter 4- "Forbidden Neighbors": White Racism and Black Suburbanites, 1940-1960
Chapter 5- Driving a Wedge of Opportunity: Black Suburbanization in the North and West, 1940-1960
Chapter 6- "The House I Live In": Race, Class, and Suburban Dreams in the Postwar Period
Chapter 7- Separate Suburbanization in the South, 1940-1960
Chapter 8- Something Old, Something New: Suburbanization in the Civil Rights Era, 1960-1980
Chapter 9- The Next Great Migration: African American Suburbanization in the 1980s and 1990s
Notes
Index
Awards
  • Cawelti Book Award
  • Robert E. Park Award Honorable Mention
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