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Liberty Road - Gregory Smithsimon

Liberty Road

Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism
Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2022
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-6149-1 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
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 Baltimore, 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.

Gregory Smithsimon is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of September 12: Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero, The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York City's Public Spaces, and Cause:…And How It Doesn’t Always Equal Effect.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 19 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4798-6149-9 / 1479861499
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-6149-1 / 9781479861491
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