ISBN:
9781479860692
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
19 b/w illustrations
DDC:
305.896073075271
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
;
African American neighborhoods
;
African Americans
;
Discrimination in housing
Abstract:
A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Randallstown, Maryland, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs. Smithsimon re-orients our perspective on race relations in American life to consider the lived experiences and lessons of those who broke the color barrier in unexpected places. Liberty Road shows us that if we want to understand Black America in the twenty-first century, we must look not just to our cities, but to our suburbs as well
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)
,
In English
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479860692
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479860692
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479860692.001.0001
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479860692
