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Author:
Hunter, Marcus Anthony.
Title:
Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia Negro changed urban America / Marcus Anthony Hunter.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
xv, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subject:
African Americans--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History.
African Americans--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Politics and government.
African Americans--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Social conditions.
Urban policy--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History.
Urban policy--United States--Case studies.--Case studies.--Case studies.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
0199948135 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780199948130 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)800720490
LCCN:
2012027021
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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