Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia negro changed urban America

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Marcus Anthony, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Case studies.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government--Philadelphia--Pennsylvania.

African Americans--Social conditions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Urban policy--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Urban policy.

Urban policy--History--United States.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : ill.

Other Title:

Black citymakers

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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 political change, but active participants influencing the direction of urban policy and change.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Mar. 12, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199333202 (ebook) :