Black Citymakers by Hunter

Black Citymakers by Hunter

W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a largely white upper middle class neighborhood. Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led anti-urban renewal mobilization, and post-Civil Rights political change from the perspective of the Black Seventh Warders. Drawing on historical, political, and sociological research, Marcus Hunter argues that black Philadelphians were by no means mere casualties of the large scale social and political changes that altered urban dynamics across the nation after World War II. Instead, Hunter shows that black Americans framed their own understandings of urban social change, forging dynamic inter- and intra-racial alliances that allowed them to shape their own migration from the old Black Seventh Ward to emergent black urban enclaves throughout Philadelphia. These Philadelphians were not victims forced from their homes - they were citymakers and agents of urban change. Black Citymakers explores a century of socioeconomic, cultural, and political history in the Black Seventh Ward, creating a new understanding of the political agency of black residents, leaders and activists in twentieth century urban change.

Using the ingenious method of a neighborhood life history, Black Citymakers charts more than a century of Black political agency in PhiladelphiaThere are no victims here, only savvy, creative, entrepreneurial, and dedicated Black Philadelphians whose proactive decisions have shaped the social geography of the city. This empirically rich, theoretically smart, and narratively elegant book charts a bold new course for the study of race and politics in urban history and sociology. Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City The text contributes both theoretically and empirically to the field of urban sociology, demonstrating through careful historical ethnography that 'the truly disadvantaged be also seen as citymakers' ... Students of housing, political science and urban sociology will find this text as useful as the urban historian. The rich narrative and strong theoretical foundation make it appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students alike. Akira Drake Rodriguez, Urban History

Marcus Anthony Hunter is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

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ISBN 13	9780199948130
ISBN 10	0199948135
Titel	Black Citymakers
Autor	Hunter
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Verlag	Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2013-03-28
Seitenanzahl	304
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