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Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book - the first history of a black middle-class community - tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanisation and the ways in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.
Temas:
African Americans > New York (State) > Yonkers > History.
African Americans > New York (State) > Yonkers > Social conditions.
African Americans > New York (State) > Yonkers > Economic conditions.
Middle class > New York (State) > Yonkers > History.
Social classes > New York (State) > Yonkers > History.
Ethnic neighborhoods > New York (State) > Yonkers > History.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > Yonkers > Histoire.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > Yonkers > Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > Yonkers > Conditions économiques.
Classes moyennes > New York (État) > Yonkers > Histoire.
Classes sociales > New York (État) > Yonkers > Histoire.
Quartiers ethniques > New York (État) > Yonkers > Histoire.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
Middle class.
Race relations.
Social classes.
Social conditions.
Yonkers (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
Yonkers (N.Y.) > Race relations.
Yonkers (N.Y.) > Conditions sociales.
Yonkers (N.Y.) > Relations raciales.
New York (State) > Yonkers.
History.
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Sumario:Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book - the first history of a black middle-class community - tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanisation and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class. Relying on both interviews with residents and archival research, Bruce D. Haynes describes the progressive stages in the life of the community and its inhabitants and the factors that enabled it to form in the first place and to develop solidarity, identity and political consciousness. He shows how residents came to recognise common political interests within the community, how racial consciousness provided an axis for social solidarity as well as partial insulation from racial slights, and how the suburb afforded these middle-class residents a degree of physical and social distance from the ghetto. As Haynes explores the history of Runyon Heights, we learn the ways in which its black middle class dealt with the tensions between the political interests of race and the material interests of class.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxviii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
ISBN:9780300129861
0300129866

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