Publication

2001 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

45,000 words, Guess

Page Count

180 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing1985033
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001026308
  • OCLC Control Number46952164
  • Better World Books9780300084900
  • Open LibraryOL3944119M

Classifications

  • DDC974.7/277
  • LCCF129.Y5 H39 2001
  • LCCF129.Y5H39 2001

Description

"Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. In the first history of such a community, this book sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which race and class have shaped residential development in the suburbs.". "Relying on both interviews with residents and archival research, Bruce D. Hayne describes the progressive stages in the life of Runyon Heights, from the circumstances surrounding its founding through its development of solidarity, identity, and political consciousness. He shows how residents came to recognize 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. This unique history reveals the ways in which a black middle-class community has dealt with the tensions between the political interests of race and the material interests of class."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryHistoireMiddle classSocial classesRace relationsNoirs américainsClasses sociales

Other Editions

  • Red lines, black spaces: the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburbYale University Press2001-01-01

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