The New Suburbanites

Author : Robert W. Lake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351478410

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The New Suburbanites by Robert W. Lake Pdf

National data indicates a surge in African-American suburbanization during the 1970s. What are the barriers that have slowed this process for so long? Is black entry to the suburbs synonymous with integration? To what extent does it contribute to convergence in the residential distributions of whites and blacks? This careful and thorough study marshals evidence that black suburbanization offers less than full realization of the American Dream.Homeownership in the United States is a source of security, a sign of status, a means of equity accumulation, and a bond to the community. The basic premise underlying The New Suburbanitesis the preeminence of equal access. Survey data collected for this analysis pertains to successful homebuyers - whites and blacks who were able to negotiate safely the treacherous housing market conditions.Specifically, Robert W. Lake draws from a unique survey of black and white homebuyers to assess the institutional and housing market barriers to black suburban homeownership. How does racial discrimination add to the cost, time, and difficulty of housing search for black homebuyers? What is the effect of discrimination on housing prices, resale value, and equity accumulation? What is behind the complexity of white and black attitudes to suburban racial integration? What is the perspective of the real estate agent, the key market intermediary? The book addresses each of these questions and concludes with a critique of present federal fair housing legislation and an assessment of policy implications.

Author : Stephen Grant Meyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0847697010

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As Long as They Don't Move Next Door by Stephen Grant Meyer Pdf

"The first full-length national history of American race relations examined through the lens of housing discrimination."--Jacket.

Author : Arthur J. Vidich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349237715

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The New Middle Classes by Arthur J. Vidich Pdf

This volume is designed first to provide a theoretical orientation and historical perspective on the rise of the middle classes in modern civilization, and second, to portray the social and political roles these classes have played and continue to play in the United States over the past century, with particular reference to the American class structure and political economy. Our method is necessarily both historical and sociological and offers an orientation for understanding contemporary American society. The essays included here were written between 1926 and 1982: they reveal both the genealogical development of sociological thought about the middle classes and the substantive content of these classes' life styles, status claims and political orientations. The present work stresses empirical studies and puts forth neither a theoretical interpretation nor a conceptual taxonomy; rather it delineates the emergence and the social and political significance of the new middle classes in relation to the classes, above and below, that preceded them.

Author : Martin Wachs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520337732

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Transportation for the Elderly by Martin Wachs Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Author : Andrew Wiese
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Barbara G. Salmore,Stephen A. Salmore
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813543918

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New Jersey Politics and Government by Barbara G. Salmore,Stephen A. Salmore Pdf

As the United States moves toward becoming a nation of suburbs, New Jersey is a place more Americans should get to know. The challenges it has overcome and those it continues to face provide lessons that will help states across the country address the struggles of providing quality education, protecting the environment, improving the quality of life, and accommodating a multicultural society while sustaining growth and opportunity. Written by two of the most respected political analysts in the state, this is the only book available that provides a comprehensive overview of politics and government in New Jersey. This thoroughly revised third edition, published for the first time by Rutgers University Press, also highlights recent scandals within the government and the high profile of the governorship.

Author : John Ehrman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300106626

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The Eighties by John Ehrman Pdf

An accessible and balanced account of the eighties tracks the transformation of America in the context of Ronald Reagan's policies and convictions and in terms of the broader global, political, social, economic, and cultural trends that allowed Reagan to accomplish much of his agenda.

Author : Bennett M. Berger
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520317949

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Working-Class Suburb by Bennett M. Berger Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960.

Author : Jon Pynoos,Robert Schafer,Chester W. Hartman
Publisher : AldineTransaction
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202320113

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Housing Urban America by Jon Pynoos,Robert Schafer,Chester W. Hartman Pdf

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president's cabinet and the college curriculum. The editors of this book have updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature. Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it.

Author : Patricia Farrell Donahue
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498529778

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Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb by Patricia Farrell Donahue Pdf

Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans. Its story will be familiar to the millions of baby boomers who grew up in middle-class suburbs. This book argues that every community is the sum of all of the different types of participation—positive, negative, formal, informal, direct, and indirect—and not just the few participation activities that social surveys have tracked over the past few decades, such as voting or attending religious services. At the same time, Pimmit Hills’s story is unique. Its proximity to Washington, D.C., meant its residents had front-row seats to—and sometimes supporting roles in—the creation of policies that continue to shape the America we live in today, such as childhood vaccinations, discrimination, and information technology.

Author : Paul Leinberger,Bruce Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Baby boom generation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035353015

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The New Individualists by Paul Leinberger,Bruce Tucker Pdf

A study of the sons and daughters of the original organization men, Americans born between 1946 and 1964 and reared in households headed by fathers who worked in large organizations. These men and women of the babyboom are redefining both the organization and individualism, with profound consequences for both.

Author : Steven A. Reich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610696661

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The Great Black Migration by Steven A. Reich Pdf

Treating broad themes as well as specific topics, this guide to the Great Black Migration will introduce high school students to a touchstone critical to shaping the history of African Americans in the United States. The movement of Southern blacks to the urban North and West over the course of the 20th century had a profound impact on black life, affecting everything from politics and labor to literature and the popular arts. This encyclopedia provides readers and researchers with a comprehensive reference work on this central topic of African American history, exploring the breadth of the black migration experience from its origins in the agricultural economy of the post–Civil War South to the return migration of the late 20th century. Entries cover such topics as the destinations that attracted black migrants, the impact of the Great Migration on black religion, the relationship between migration and black politics, and the patterns of discrimination and racial violence migrants encountered. Unlike more general reference works on African American history, each entry in the encyclopedia situates its subject within the context of black migration and articulates connections between the subject of the entry and the overall history of the migration.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112204466611

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Joint Committee ... Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Washington (D.C.)
ISBN : LOC:00183806294

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Washington Metropolitan Area Economic Development by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems Pdf

Author : Arnold M. Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136275944

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Human Behavior and Social Processes by Arnold M. Rose Pdf

This is Volume VI in of eighteen a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1962, this book offers the interactionist approach when looking at human behaviour and social processes. This book shows that interaction theory can provide us with a body of significant testable propositions regarding the relationship of self and society.