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White flight/black flight : the dynamics of racial change in an American neighborhood /

Urban residential integration is often fleeting-a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book prese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woldoff, Rachael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cornell paperbacks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : what happens to a neighborhood after white flight?
  • The Parkmont environment
  • Choosing Parkmont : whites staying and blacks pioneering
  • Stella Zuk's story : choosing to stay
  • Cross-racial caregiving : pioneers helping stayers to age in place
  • Ken Wilkinson : striving for the next generation
  • Black flight : consequences of neighborhood cultural conflict
  • Billy's narrative : clashing in Parkmont
  • Skipping school : the negative effects of a neighborhood institution
  • Conclusions : understanding the cultural dynamics of neighborhood change.