White flight/black flight : the dynamics of racial change in an American neighborhood / Rachael A. Woldoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woldoff, Rachael, author.

Series:

Cornell paperbacks.

Cornell paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic neighborhoods--United States--Case studies.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

African American neighborhoods--Case studies.

African American neighborhoods.

Residential mobility--United States--Case studies.

Residential mobility.

Social change--United States--Case studies.

Social change.

United States--Race relations--Case studies.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Urban residential integration is often fleeting-a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book presents a portrait of the life of a working-class neighborhood in the aftermath of white flight, illustrating cultural clashes that accompany racial change as well as common values that transcend race, from the perspectives of three different groups who are living it: white stayers, black pioneers, and "second-wave" blacks.Rachael A. Woldoff offers a fresh look at race and neighborhoods by documenting a two-stage process of neighborhood transition and focusing on the perspectives of two understudied groups: newly arriving black residents and whites who have stayed in the neighborhood. Woldoff describes the period of transition when white residents still remain, though in diminishing numbers, and a second, less discussed stage of racial change: black flight. She reveals what happens after white flight is complete: "Pioneer" blacks flee to other neighborhoods or else adjust to their new segregated residential environment by coping with the loss of relationships with their longer-term white neighbors, signs of community decline, and conflicts with the incoming second wave of black neighbors.Readers will find several surprising and compelling twists to the white flight story related to positive relations between elderly stayers and the striving pioneers, conflict among black residents, and differences in cultural understandings of what constitutes crime and disorder.

Contents:

Introduction : what happens to a neighborhood after white flight?

The Parkmont environment

Choosing Parkmont : whites staying and blacks pioneering

Stella Zuk's story : choosing to stay

Cross-racial caregiving : pioneers helping stayers to age in place

Ken Wilkinson : striving for the next generation

Black flight : consequences of neighborhood cultural conflict

Billy's narrative : clashing in Parkmont

Skipping school : the negative effects of a neighborhood institution

Conclusions : understanding the cultural dynamics of neighborhood change.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801461514

0801461510

9780801461033

0801461030

OCLC:

966803043