Haven and a Hell (eBook)

The Ghetto in Black America

Lance Freeman (Autor)

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2019
Walter De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-0-231-54557-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto's role as haven or hell to wax and wane.

FreemanLance: Lance Freeman is a professor in the Urban Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up (Temple University Press: 2005). He is the co-editor of the ASA community and urban sociology section's journal City & Community.Lance Freeman is a professor in the Urban Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up (2005).

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The black ghetto is thought of as a place of urban decay and social disarray. Like the historical ghetto of Venice, it is perceived as a space of confinement, one imposed on black America by whites. It is the home of a marginalized underclass and a sign of the depth of American segregation. Yet while black urban neighborhoods have suffered from institutional racism and economic neglect, they have also been places of refuge and community.In A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman examines how the ghetto shaped black America and how black America shaped the ghetto. Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. At times, the ghetto promised the freedom to build black social institutions and political power. At others, it suppressed and further stigmatized African Americans. Freeman reveals the forces that caused the ghetto's role as haven or hell to wax and wane, spanning the Great Migration, mid-century opportunities, the eruptions of the sixties, the challenges of the seventies and eighties, and present-day issues of mass incarceration, the subprime crisis, and gentrification. Offering timely planning and policy recommendations based in this history, A Haven and a Hell provides a powerful new understanding of urban black communities at a time when the future of many inner-city neighborhoods appears uncertain.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Embryonic Ghetto2. The Age of the Black Enclave3. The Federally Sanctioned Ghetto4. World War II and the Aftermath: The Ghetto Diverges5. The Ghetto Erupts: The 1960s6. The Last Decades of the Twentieth Century7. The Ghetto in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusion: How to Have a Haven but No Hell in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesReferencesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54557-6 / 0231545576
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54557-0 / 9780231545570