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Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980

Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Todd M. MichneyPublish date:2017-03-20Pages:350
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469631943ISBN-10:1469631946UPC:9781469631943Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, African American & Black, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCTGRQK7EE
The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed Black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's Black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighborhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials, allied with politically progressive whites (notably Jewish activists), and relied upon both Black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these "surrogate suburbs" and maintain their livability until the bona fide suburbs became more accessible.

By tracking the trajectories of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and Black poverty and tells the neglected story of the Black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469631943ISBN-10:1469631946UPC:9781469631943Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, African American & Black, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCTGRQK7EE
Michney, Todd M.: - Todd M. Michney is assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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