""American Babylon" traces the dialectic of suburbanization and
black power in my hometown of Oakland, California. Encapsulating
the postwar history of hundreds of mid-sized American cities,
Robert Self's original and fascinating case study historicizes
city-suburb racial segregation as a creation within living memory.
We cannot heal or make sense of the nation we live in now without
"American Babylon,""--Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University,
author of "Southern History across the Color Line"
""American Babylon" promises to be one of those rare works that
redefines the field. Robert Self brilliantly weaves together
histories that are usually told separately: political economy,
labor, black community formation, suburbanization, and civil
rights. His analysis of the relationship between 'black power' and
'white power' opens up a new way of thinking about race, economics,
and politics in modern America."--Thomas J. Sugrue, University of
Pennsylvania, author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis"
"By grounding his historical narrative in its spatial context,
Robert Self offers a new conception of postwar urban history and
also of national political history, making it possible to map the
relations of social and political power. He has moreover broken
free of a traditional limitation of urban histories: rather than
limit himself to a single municipality, he tells the story of an
entire metropolitan region. This very readable book promises to be
highly influential in the fields of urban history, postwar
political history, and African American and race relations
history."--Philip J. Ethington, University of Southern California,
author of "The Public City"
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