Class warfare in Black Atlanta : grassroots struggles, power, and repression under gentrification / Augustus Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Augustus, 1985- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta.

African Americans.

Gentrification--Georgia--Atlanta.

Gentrification.

Social classes--Georgia--Atlanta.

Social classes.

African Americans--Political activity--Georgia--Atlanta.

Atlanta (Ga.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Atlanta (Ga.).

Atlanta (Ga.)--Social conditions--21st century.

Atlanta (Ga.)--History--20th century.

Atlanta (Ga.)--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]

Contents:

Vine City as the World Trade Center

The Black worker struck first: Black power, protonationalism, and the working-class offensive

The Black urban regime strikes back: retrenchment, repression, and the roots of gentrification in Atlanta

The spoils of class war: neoliberalization and the fragmentation of Black working-class Atlanta

Don't work yourself into a shoot, brother! The new nadir and new tools of class war in Olympic-era Atlanta

The final bite of the apple: nonprofits and petty bourgeois "activisim" in post-Olympic Atlanta

Robbing Peter to pay Paul: suburbanization and subproletarianization of the Black working class

The Black worker: what is to be done?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781469685724 (electronic bk.)

1469685728 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032790995

CIPO000209014

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.