Black Urban History at the Crossroads : Race and Place in the American City / Leslie M. Harris [and three others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Leslie M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2024]

Summary:

Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination.

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: African American Urban Life, Culture, and Politics across Time and Space

PART I: Race, Class, and Early American Cities

CHAPTER 1: Black Surfports and Seaports in the Early Modern Atlantic World

CHAPTER 2: Black Life in Early Charleston

CHAPTER 3: “We Are Considered a Distinct People”: Black Consciousness in Antebellum New York City

PART II: Emancipation, the Great Migration, and Emergence of the Black Metropolis

CHAPTER 4: From the Slaves’ Jubilee to White “Redemption”: Black Working-Class Life in Charleston, 1861–1880

CHAPTER 5: How to Escape the Graveyard of History: Edwin Garrison Walker, Independent Politics, and the Myth of Northern White Racial Innocence

CHAPTER 6: “Chicago Could be the Vienna of American Fascism”: The Political Culture of Black Anti-Fascism in the New Deal Era

PART III: Modern Black Freedom Struggle, Urban Spaces, and New Politics

CHAPTER 7: Black Women’s Urban Activism and Radical Reparative Justice in Post–Civil Rights Philadelphia

CHAPTER 8: Carceral Geography: Black Urban History and Punishment in Late Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

CHAPTER 9: Race in the Rust Belt: Black Pittsburgh and Narratives of Urban Change

CHAPTER 10: A Subtlety: Race-Making, Refinement, and Redevelopment in Brooklyn

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822991359

0822991357