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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiese, Andrew (Professor of history)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2004 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
Format: Electronic eBook
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.