Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia Negro changed urban America

Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia Negro changed urban America / Marcus Anthony Hunter.

'Black Citymakers' revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's 'The Philadelphia Negro' over the twentieth century. Hunter's analysis demonstrates that black Philadelphians were by not mere victims of large scale socio-economic and poli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunter, Marcus Anthony
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Politics and government.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions.
Urban policy > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Urban policy > United States > History > Case studies.
African Americans > Politics and government
African Americans > Social conditions
Race relations
Social conditions
Urban policy
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
United States
Case studies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • If these row homes could talk: W.E.B. DuBois, the Philadelphia Negro, and political agency
  • A tale of two banks: economic collapse and neighborhood change
  • The night the roof caved in: tragedy in the Black seventh ward and the rise of racialized public housing
  • Philadelphia's Mason-Dixon line: urban renewal and the crosstown expressway battle
  • Philadelphia's Black Belt: post-civil rights Philadelphia, Black politics, and urban change
  • Flash (mobs) forward: Black citymakers and urban change.

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