A haven and a hell : the ghetto in black America / Lance Freeman.
The author traces the evolving role of predominantly Black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century. This book reveals the forces that caused the ghetto's role as haven or hell to wax and wane.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] |
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Table of Contents:
- The embryonic ghetto
- The age of the black enclave
- The federally sanctioned ghetto
- World War II and the aftermath : the ghetto diverges
- The ghetto erupts : the 1960s
- The last decades of the twentieth century
- The ghetto in the twenty-first century
- Conclusion: how to have a haven but no hell in the twenty-first century.