Download or read book The Comfortable House written by Alan Gowans and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the varied architectural styles of the free-standing, single-family American suburban home, many of which were ordered from catalogs

Download or read book Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis written by Walter Hill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900-1950" presents a collection of original essays on the crucial topic of the modern black experience by established and rising scholars. It depicts the struggle of Black Americans against racism and segregation in employment and housing, a struggle from which black workers built a potent community and reached across the class barrier to identify with middle-class, educated African Americans. These essays offer an array of insights and thoughtful meditations on key questions of the modern urban black experience, broad in scope yet coherent in focus. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about race, the city, and America's significant social experiences.

Download or read book Black Exodus written by Alferdteen Harrison and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays by Blyden Jackson, Dernoral Davis, Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck, Carole Marks, James R. Grossman, and William Cohen and Neil R. McMillen What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this exodus, the South lost not only a huge percentage of its inhabitants to northern cities like Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia but also its supply of cheap labor. Fleeing from racial injustice and poverty, southern blacks took their culture north with them and transformed northern urban centers with their churches, social institutions, and ways of life. In Black Exodus eight noted scholars consider the causes that stimulated the migration and examine the far-reaching results.

Download or read book Borderland written by John R. Stilgoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text portrays the American suburbs from their beginnings in the mid-1800s to the onset of World War II and focuses on their appearance, people's reaction to them and their importance to society.

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