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

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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.
Temas:
Ethnic neighborhoods > United States > Case studies.
African American neighborhoods > United States > Case studies.
Residential mobility > United States > Case studies.
Social change > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Demographic transition > United States.
Quartiers ethniques > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Quartiers noirs américains > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Mobilité résidentielle > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
Transition démographique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
African American neighborhoods
African Americans > Social conditions
Demographic transition
Ethnic neighborhoods
Race relations
Residential mobility
Social change
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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