Red lines, black spaces : the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburb / Bruce D. Haynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--New York (State)--Yonkers--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--New York (State)--Yonkers--Social conditions.

African Americans--New York (State)--Yonkers--Economic conditions.

Middle class--New York (State)--Yonkers--History.

Middle class.

Social classes--New York (State)--Yonkers--History.

Social classes.

Ethnic neighborhoods--New York (State)--Yonkers--History.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

Yonkers (N.Y.)--Social conditions.

Yonkers (N.Y.).

Yonkers (N.Y.)--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book-the first history of a black middle-class community-tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class. Relying on both interviews with residents and archival research, Bruce D. Haynes describes the progressive stages in the life of the community and its inhabitants and the factors that enabled it to form in the first place and to develop solidarity, identity and political consciousness. He shows how residents came to recognize common political interests within the community, how racial consciousness provided an axis for social solidarity as well as partial insulation from racial slights, and how the suburb afforded these middle-class residents a degree of physical and social distance from the ghetto. As Haynes explores the history of Runyon Heights, we learn the ways in which its black middle class dealt with the tensions between the political interests of race and the material interests of class.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Race and Place in Industrial Yonkers

2. The Peopling of Nepperhan

3. Working-Class Roots

4. E Pluribus Unum

5. Nepperhan The Prewar Years

6. Runyon Heights The Postwar Years

7. Eisenhower Republicans and Republican Democrats

8. Defining Black Space

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176) and index.

ISBN:

9786611722128

9781281722126

128172212X

9780300129861

0300129866

OCLC:

952731913