ISBN:
0813118700
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 241 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.896/07307526
Keywords:
Geschichte 1955-1965
;
Demografische aspecten
;
Huisvesting
;
Negers
;
Rassenverhoudingen
;
Segregatie
;
Schwarze
;
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans Housing
;
African Americans Segregation
;
Demographic transition
;
Wohnen
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Stadtviertel
;
Segregation
;
Baltimore (Md.) Population
;
Baltimore (Md.) Race relations
;
Edmondson Village (Baltimore, Md.) Population
;
Edmondson Village (Baltimore, Md.) Race relations
;
Baltimore, Md.
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Baltimore, Md.
;
Stadtviertel
;
Segregation
;
Wohnen
;
Geschichte 1955-1965
;
Baltimore, Md.
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
Abstract:
In Blockbusting in Baltimore W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream
Abstract:
By buying low and selling high, playing on fears of whites and needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood."
Abstract:
Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience
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