White flight/black flight : the dynamics of racial change in an American neighborhood

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Label

White flight/black flight : the dynamics of racial change in an American neighborhood

Title remainder

the dynamics of racial change in an American neighborhood

Statement of responsibility

Rachael A. Woldoff

Creator

• Woldoff, Rachael

Subject

• African American neighborhoods -- United States -- Case studies
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Case studies
• Demographic transition
• Demographic transition -- United States
• Electronic books
• Ethnic neighborhoods
• Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States -- Case studies
• Race relations
• Residential mobility
• Residential mobility -- United States -- Case studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays
• Social change
• Social change -- United States
• United States
• United States -- Race relations
• African American neighborhoods

Genre

• Electronic books
• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

Urban residential integration is often fleeting-a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book presents a portrait of the life of a working-class neighborhood in the aftermath of white flight, illustrating cultural clashes that accompany racial change as well as common values that transcend race, from the perspectives of three different groups who are living it: white stayers, black pioneers, and "second-wave" blacks. Rachael A. Woldoff offers a fresh look at race and neighborhoods by documenting a two-stage process of neighborhood transition and focusing on the perspectives of two understudied groups: newly arriving black residents and whites who have stayed in the neighborhood. Woldoff describes the period of transition when white residents still remain, though in diminishing numbers, and a second, less discussed stage of racial change: black flight. She reveals what happens after white flight is complete: "Pioneer" blacks flee to other neighborhoods or else adjust to their new segregated residential environment by coping with the loss of relationships with their longer-term white neighbors, signs of community decline, and conflicts with the incoming second wave of black neighbors. Readers will find several surprising and compelling twists to the white flight story related to positive relations between elderly stayers and the striving pioneers, conflict among black residents, and differences in cultural understandings of what constitutes crime and disorder

Member of

• Cornell paperbacks

Cataloging source

N$T

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

In English

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cornell paperbacks