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Marcus Anthony Hunter - Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America - 9780190249670 - V9780190249670
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Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

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Description for Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America Paperback. Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro over the twentieth century. Num Pages: 306 pages, 32 figures; 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
441g
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190249670
SKU
V9780190249670
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99-20

About Marcus Anthony Hunter
Marcus Anthony Hunter is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews for Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Hunter performs the kind of delicate theoretical acrobatics that make this book a significant contribution to the sociological literature on the causes, consequences, and, most important, responses to social inequality. Scholars and students interested in historical, political, and urban sociology as well as race, inequality, and social movements should read this book.
American Journal of Sociology
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