Black Suburbia

Author : John Rosalina
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480884021

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Black Suburbia by John Rosalina Pdf

Tay and Rena are two middle school kids from the ghetto of the Eastside projects. They are both proud and more mature than their ages might suggest, and although very different, they both win the eighth-grade writing contest. On this night, the stage is theirs to share, and unknown to anyone—including Tay and Rena—this award links them together forever. One beautiful spring day, Tay drives home after dropping Rena off at her parents’ place and notices a house on her street that seems vacant. No lights are ever on. It’s always dark, dead to the world outside, and the yard is a complete mess. The house is out of place, mysterious. Tay dreams that this house possesses secret hidden treasures. He has a vision of riches beyond belief and crisp, green dollar bills. He devises a plan, accounting for every possible scenario, and decides to pull it off alone. However, Tay doesn’t account for one thing. His plan ends in horror that will haunt both he and Rena for the rest of their lives, turning their childhood potential into eventual tragedy.

Author : Valerie C. Johnson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791487792

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Black Power in the Suburbs by Valerie C. Johnson Pdf

The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.

Author : Orly Clerge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520969131

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The New Noir by Orly Clerge Pdf

The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York. In The New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city. Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge’s ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York’s middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class.

Author : Andrew Wiese
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226896267

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Places of Their Own by Andrew Wiese Pdf

On Melbenan Drive just west of Atlanta, sunlight falls onto a long row of well-kept lawns. Two dozen homes line the street; behind them wooden decks and living-room windows open onto vast woodland properties. Residents returning from their jobs steer SUVs into long driveways and emerge from their automobiles. They walk to the front doors of their houses past sculptured bushes and flowers in bloom. For most people, this cozy image of suburbia does not immediately evoke images of African Americans. But as this pioneering work demonstrates, the suburbs have provided a home to black residents in increasing numbers for the past hundred years—in the last two decades alone, the numbers have nearly doubled to just under twelve million. Places of Their Own begins a hundred years ago, painting an austere portrait of the conditions that early black residents found in isolated, poor suburbs. Andrew Wiese insists, however, that they moved there by choice, withstanding racism and poverty through efforts to shape the landscape to their own needs. Turning then to the 1950s, Wiese illuminates key differences between black suburbanization in the North and South. He considers how African Americans in the South bargained for separate areas where they could develop their own neighborhoods, while many of their northern counterparts transgressed racial boundaries, settling in historically white communities. Ultimately, Wiese explores how the civil rights movement emboldened black families to purchase homes in the suburbs with increased vigor, and how the passage of civil rights legislation helped pave the way for today's black middle class. Tracing the precise contours of black migration to the suburbs over the course of the whole last century and across the entire United States, Places of Their Own will be a foundational book for anyone interested in the African American experience or the role of race and class in the making of America's suburbs. Winner of the 2005 John G. Cawelti Book Award from the American Culture Association. Winner of the 2005 Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from the Urban History Association.

Author : Amy Maria Kenyon
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814332285

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Dreaming Suburbia by Amy Maria Kenyon Pdf

Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization.

Author : T. Vicino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230612723

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Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia by T. Vicino Pdf

Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs - the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once the bastion of a large middle class, have matured and experienced three decades of social and economic decline. In the first comprehensive analysis of suburban decline for an entire region, Vicino uses Baltimore as an illustrative case to chronicle how first-tier suburbs experienced widespread decline while outer suburbs flourished since the 1970s. At the brink of the twenty-first century, Vicino illustrates how the processes of deindustrialization, racial diversity, and class segregation have shaped the evolution of suburban decline.

Author : Paul J. Maginn,Katrin B. Anacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317288183

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Suburbia in the 21st Century by Paul J. Maginn,Katrin B. Anacker Pdf

The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the "urban age". However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments. Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism. This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continuing importance of the suburbs and the suburban dream, which lives on albeit under increasing challenges, such as the global financial crisis, structural racism, and the Covid-19 pandemic, which have given rise to various suburban nightmares.

Author : Ernest McGowen III
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700624171

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African Americans in White Suburbia by Ernest McGowen III Pdf

Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class. High economic status has afforded them considerable employment opportunities and political resources—but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or local candidates or office holders who share or even understand their concerns. How does such an environment affect the political behavior of African Americans who have strong racial identifications and policy preferences? This is the question Ernest B. McGowen III asks in African Americans in White Suburbia. With Philadelphia as his primary case, McGowen uses a combination of surveys to understand the attitudes of affluent suburban African Americans, compare these attitudes to those of their white neighbors, and to African Americans in the city and so-called “black ring” suburbs. This detailed study—which ranges from participation in black churches and other institutions to attitudes towards government and affirmative action—reveals that suburban African Americans feel their minority status acutely. As a result, they tend to seek out more agreeable networks that reinforce their racial identity, such as churches, fraternal organizations, and charities in black neighborhoods they've left behind. Though Philadelphia is McGowen's focus, broader surveys suggest that his findings reflect a nation-wide pattern. Arriving at a moment of great controversy over racial disparities and division, his timely study offers invaluable insight into the complex nexus of race and class in America.

Author : Andrew Malekoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351685672

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Group Work with Suburbia's Children by Andrew Malekoff Pdf

This collection of articles, first published in 1991, attempts to describe life in the suburbs from diverse vantage points, to evoke a feeling of what life is like for some of the children and their families living in these communities and to demonstrate the practice and value of group work within this context. This title will be of interest to students of social work, sociology and urban studies.

Author : United States. Civil Rights Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210428194

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Equal Opportunity in Suburbia by United States. Civil Rights Commission Pdf

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Discrimination in employment
ISBN : UIUC:30112064635722

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Equal Opportunity in Suburbia by United States Commission on Civil Rights Pdf

Author : John Archer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0816643032

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Architecture and Suburbia by John Archer Pdf

Traces the evolution of the modern American dream house from seventeenth-century England to the present.

Author : J. Eric Oliver
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691223360

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Democracy in Suburbia by J. Eric Oliver Pdf

Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond popular stereotypes, Democracy in Suburbia answers these questions by examining how suburbs influence citizen participation in community and public affairs. Eric Oliver offers a rich, engaging account of what suburbia means for American democracy and, in doing so, speaks to the heart of widespread debate on the health of our civil society. Applying an innovative, unusually rigorous mode of statistical analysis to a wealth of unique survey and census data, Oliver argues that suburbs, by institutionalizing class and racial differences with municipal boundaries, transform social conflicts between citizens into ones between political institutions. In reducing the incentives for individual political participation, suburbanization has negated the benefits of ''small town'' government and deprived metropolitan areas of valuable civic capacity. This ultimately increases prospects of serious social conflict. Oliver concludes that we must reconfigure suburban governments to allow seemingly intractable issues of common metropolitan concern to surface in local politics rather than be ignored as cross-jurisdictional. And he believes this is possible without sacrifice of local government's advantages. Scholars and students of political science, sociology, and urban affairs will prize this book for its striking findings, its revealing scrutiny of the commonplace, and its insights into how the pursuit of the American dream may be imperiling American democracy.

Author : Becky Nicolaides,Andrew Wiese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135396329

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The Suburb Reader by Becky Nicolaides,Andrew Wiese Pdf

Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment—it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. Employing over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essays, The Suburb Reader documents the rise of North American suburbanization from the 1700s through the present day. Through thematically organized chapters it explores multiple facets of suburbia’s creation and addresses its indelible impact on the shaping of gender and family ideologies, politics, race relations, technology, design, and public policy. Becky Nicolaides’ and Andrew Wiese’s concise commentaries introduce the selections and contextualize the major themes of each chapter. Distinctive in its integration of multiple perspectives on the evolution of the suburban landscape, The Suburb Reader pays particular attention to the long, complex experiences of African Americans, immigrants, and working people in suburbia. Encompassing an impressive breadth of chronology and themes, The Suburb Reader is a landmark collection of the best works on the rise of this modern social phenomenon.

Author : Roger Silverstone
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415107172

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Visions of Suburbia by Roger Silverstone Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.