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Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia negro changed urban America / Marcus Anthony Hunter.

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.Description: xv, 286 p. : ill. : 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780190249670(pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896 HUN
Contents:
If these row homes could talk: W.E.B. DuBois, the Philadelphia Negro, and political agency -- A tale of two banks: economic collapse and neighborhood change -- The night the roof caved in: tragedy in the Black seventh ward and the rise of racialized public housing -- Philadelphia's Mason-Dixon line: urban renewal and the crosstown expressway battle -- Philadelphia's Black Belt: post-civil rights Philadelphia, Black politics, and urban change -- Flash (mobs) forward: Black citymakers and urban change.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-276) and index.

If these row homes could talk: W.E.B. DuBois, the Philadelphia Negro, and political agency -- A tale of two banks: economic collapse and neighborhood change -- The night the roof caved in: tragedy in the Black seventh ward and the rise of racialized public housing -- Philadelphia's Mason-Dixon line: urban renewal and the crosstown expressway battle -- Philadelphia's Black Belt: post-civil rights Philadelphia, Black politics, and urban change -- Flash (mobs) forward: Black citymakers and urban change.