Freeman A Haven and a Hell

The Ghetto in Black America
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54557-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto’s role as haven or hell to wax and wane.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeman, Lance

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Embryonic Ghetto
2. The Age of the Black Enclave
3. The Federally Sanctioned Ghetto
4. World War II and the Aftermath: The Ghetto Diverges
5. The Ghetto Erupts: The 1960s
6. The Last Decades of the Twentieth Century
7. The Ghetto in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: How to Have a Haven but No Hell in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Freeman Lance:
Lance Freeman is a professor in the Urban Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up (Temple University Press: 2005). He is the co-editor of the ASA community and urban sociology section’s journal City & Community.Lance Freeman is a professor in the Urban Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up (2005).