Places of Their Own
Subtitle: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780226896250
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Social groups & communities; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Social Classes; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Social Science / African-American Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; 20th century; African Americans; History; Social conditions; Suburbanites; Suburbs; United States
First sentence: AT THE END of World War II, on the cusp of a mass migration that would remake the nation's suburbs, social scientist Carey McWilliams offered a jarring portrait of the landscape surrounding the nation's third largest city.