The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century : race, power, and politics of place

Publication Data

• Title The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century : race, power, and politics of place
• Contributor Robert D. Bullard
• Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Lanham, Md.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: The significance of race and place / Robert D. Bullard
The Black metropolis in the era of sprawl / Robert D. Bullard
Structural racism and spatial Jim Crow / John A. Powell
Residential apartheid America style / Joe T. Darden
Dilemma of place and suburbanization of the Black middle class / Sheryll Cashin
Walling in or walling out : gated communities / Edward J. Blakely and Thomas W. Sanchez
Spatial mismatch and job sprawl / Michael A. Stoll
Atlanta : a Black mecca? / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres
Black New Orleans : before and after Hurricane Katrina / Beverly H. Wright and Robert D. Bullard
Health disparities in Black Los Angeles / J. Eugene Grigsby III
Black political power in the new century / David A. Bositis
Achieving equitable development / Angela Glover Blackwell.

Topics

• City dwellers :: United States
• African Americans :: Social conditions
• Blacks :: Segregation :: United States
• Sociology, Urban :: United States
• Urban geography :: United States
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The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century : race, power, and politics of place. ISBN 9780742543287. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.