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Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia negro changed urban America /

"W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study 'The Philadelphia Negro'. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a l...

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Main Author: Hunter, Marcus Anthony.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Politics and government.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions.
Urban policy > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Urban policy > United States > History > Case studies.
Noirs américains > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Politique et gouvernement.
Noirs américains > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Conditions sociales.
Politique urbaine > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire > Études de cas.
African Americans.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Social conditions
Urban policy.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
United States.
Case studies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • If these row homes could talk
  • A tale of two banks
  • The night the roof caved in
  • Philadelphia's Mason-Dixon line
  • Philadelphia's Black Belt
  • Flash (mobs) forward.

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