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Black Citymakers - How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (Paperback)
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Black Citymakers - How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (Paperback)
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W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward
neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in
his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century
after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed
into a largely white upper middle class neighborhood. Black
Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century
of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led
anti-urban renewal mobilization, and post-Civil Rights political
change from the perspective of the Black Seventh Warders. Drawing
on historical, political, and sociological research, Marcus Hunter
argues that black Philadelphians were by no means mere casualties
of the large scale social and political changes that altered urban
dynamics across the nation after World War II. Instead, Hunter
shows that black Americans framed their own understandings of urban
social change, forging dynamic inter- and intra-racial alliances
that allowed them to shape their own migration from the old Black
Seventh Ward to emergent black urban enclaves throughout
Philadelphia. These Philadelphians were not victims forced from
their homes - they were citymakers and agents of urban change.
Black Citymakers explores a century of socioeconomic, cultural, and
political history in the Black Seventh Ward, creating a new
understanding of the political agency of black residents, leaders
and activists in twentieth century urban change.
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