| Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Series |
NYU Press scholarship online |
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NYU Press scholarship online
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| Contents |
Introduction. Arriving on Liberty Road -- Beyond Blockbusting: How Racial Transition Works -- Building a Black Community: Activists Bring Racial Transition to the Suburbs -- Desegregation: Resident Activists Craft a New Story in the Suburbs -- Growth: How Suburban Space Reshapes Black Community Issues and Politics -- Barriers: The Right to the City and Changing Suburban Space -- Foreclosure: Punctuated Equilibrium -- Conservative Politics: Left and Right or Black and White? -- Conclusion. The Future of the Black Middle Class and Suburbia |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
African American neighborhoods -- Maryland -- Randallstown
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African Americans -- Maryland -- Randallstown
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Discrimination in housing -- Maryland -- Randallstown
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
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Social conditions.
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Race relations.
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African American neighborhoods.
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African Americans.
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Discrimination in housing.
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| SUBJECT |
Randallstown (Md.) -- Social conditions
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Randallstown (Md.) -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Maryland -- Randallstown.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1479860697 |
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9781479860692 |
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