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Author Wiese, Andrew (Professor of history)

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

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  307.74 WIESE    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  307.74 W651P    Check Shelf
Description xi, 411 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
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.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN 0226896412 alkaline paper
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