A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from
history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City
is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American
community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the
racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which
southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the
mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern
counterparts. The African- American community in the South was (and
to some extent still is) a physically expansive, distinct, and
socially heterogeneous zone within the larger metropolis. It found
itself functioning both politically and economically as a "separate
city" -- a city set apart from its predominantly white counterpart.
Within the separate city itself, internal conflicts reflected a
structural divide between an empowered black middle class and a
larger group comprising the working class and the disadvantaged.
Even with these conflicts, the South's new black leadership gained
political control in many cities, but it could not overcome the
economic forces shaping the metropolis. The persistence of a
separate city admitted to the profound ineffectiveness of decades
of struggle to eliminate the racial barriers with which southern
urban leaders -- indeed all urban America -- continue to grapple
today.
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