Red lines, black spaces : the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburb

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Red lines, black spaces : the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburb

Title remainder

the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburb

Statement of responsibility

Bruce D. Haynes

Creator

• Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-

Subject

• African Americans -- Economic conditions
• African Americans -- New York (State) | Yonkers -- Economic conditions
• African Americans -- New York (State) | Yonkers -- History
• African Americans -- New York (State) | Yonkers -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Classes moyennes -- New York (État) | Yonkers -- Histoire
• Classes sociales -- New York (État) | Yonkers -- Histoire
• Electronic books
• Ethnic neighborhoods
• Ethnic neighborhoods -- New York (State) | Yonkers -- History
• HISTORY -- State & Local
• HISTORY -- State & Local | General
• History
• Middle class
• Middle class -- New York (State) | Yonkers -- History
• African Americans
• Noirs américains -- New York (État) | Yonkers -- Conditions sociales
• Noirs américains -- New York (État) | Yonkers -- Conditions économiques
• Noirs américains -- New York (État) | Yonkers -- Histoire
• Quartiers ethniques -- New York (État) | Yonkers -- Histoire
• Race relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | African American Studies
• Social classes
• Social classes -- New York (State) | Yonkers -- History
• Social conditions
• Yonkers (N.Y.) -- Conditions sociales
• Yonkers (N.Y.) -- Race relations
• Yonkers (N.Y.) -- Relations raciales
• Yonkers (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• New York (State) -- Yonkers

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book - the first history of a black middle-class community - tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanisation and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class. Relying on both interviews with residents and archival research, Bruce D. Haynes describes the progressive stages in the life of the community and its inhabitants and the factors that enabled it to form in the first place and to develop solidarity, identity and political consciousness. He shows how residents came to recognise common political interests within the community, how racial consciousness provided an axis for social solidarity as well as partial insulation from racial slights, and how the suburb afforded these middle-class residents a degree of physical and social distance from the ghetto. As Haynes explores the history of Runyon Heights, we learn the ways in which its black middle class dealt with the tensions between the political interests of race and the material interests of class

Cataloging source

N$T

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography