Places of Their Own
African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
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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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