Invisible Houston : the Black experience in boom and bust / Robert D. Bullard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bullard, Robert D. (Robert Doyle), 1946-

Series:

Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 6.

Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Texas--Houston--Economic conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Texas--Houston--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

Houston (Tex.)--Economic conditions.

Houston (Tex.).

Houston (Tex.)--Social conditions.

Texas--Houston.

Physical Description:

xiv, 160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [1987]

Summary:

In this book sociologist Robert D. Bullard explores the major social, economic, and political factors that helped make Houston the "golden buckle" of the Sunbelt. He then chronicles the rise of Houston's black neighborhoods. Using case studies conducted in Houston's Third Ward, the city's most diverse black neighborhood, he discusses housing patterns, discrimination, law enforcement, and leadership, relating these to the larger issues of institutional racism, poverty, and politics.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Blacks and the New South 3

2. The South's Largest Black Community 14

3. Housing Occupancy Trends and Black Neighborhoods 32

4. Housing the City's Poor 40

5. The Persisting Barrier of Discrimination in Housing 50

6. Environmental Quality and Houston's Neighborhoods 60

7. Sharing the Economic Pie 76

8. Black Business Development 86

9. Law Enforcement and the Black Community 100

10. The Quest for Equal Rights 114.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [139]-153.

ISBN:

0890963126

0890963576

OCLC:

15108617