His study documents the process of that development, which he divides into three distinct eras: from 1900 to 1940, from 1941 to 1960, and from 1960 through the civil rights years and beyond.
The first period incorporates the years of the great migration of southern blacks to the larger cities of the North and East. Noting that this period also witnessed a diffusion of many of those migrants to outlying areas around those cities, areas that meet the geographical, if not the sociological, definition of suburbs, Wiese argues that, for blacks as for whites, the process was one of upward, as well as outward, mobility.
He examines next the peak years of American suburbanization when the federal housing policies made homeownership accessible to …show more content…
He argues that African Americans were denied not only access to many of the more affluent American suburbs but also recognition that they not only hungered for but attained “places of their own.”
The Author Andrew Weise traces African American suburbanization from the nineteenth-century to the Twenty-first century. He starts with black enclaves on the edges of most southern and many northern towns to the sprawling automobile suburbs of today.When those who could afford to do so moved away from urban problems. Wiese details the struggles of African Americans who persevered throughout the twentieth century to establish suburban home spaces in a racist society that expended considerable energy in restricting them to the …show more content…
African-Americans were migrating from the South routinely found themselves forced into congested urban areas. Along with the stresses of overcrowding, they struggled against the vice of loose city morals and yearned for the open spaces that had been one of the few pleasant features of southern life. Many refused to endure those societal ills and moved to the suburbs where they could benefit from their proximity to the city without having to suffer its risks and
The first period incorporates the years of the great migration of southern blacks to the larger cities of the North and East. Noting that this period also witnessed a diffusion of many of those migrants to outlying areas around those cities, areas that meet the geographical, if not the sociological, definition of suburbs, Wiese argues that, for blacks as for whites, the process was one of upward, as well as outward, mobility.
He examines next the peak years of American suburbanization when the federal housing policies made homeownership accessible to …show more content…
He argues that African Americans were denied not only access to many of the more affluent American suburbs but also recognition that they not only hungered for but attained “places of their own.”
The Author Andrew Weise traces African American suburbanization from the nineteenth-century to the Twenty-first century. He starts with black enclaves on the edges of most southern and many northern towns to the sprawling automobile suburbs of today.When those who could afford to do so moved away from urban problems. Wiese details the struggles of African Americans who persevered throughout the twentieth century to establish suburban home spaces in a racist society that expended considerable energy in restricting them to the …show more content…
African-Americans were migrating from the South routinely found themselves forced into congested urban areas. Along with the stresses of overcrowding, they struggled against the vice of loose city morals and yearned for the open spaces that had been one of the few pleasant features of southern life. Many refused to endure those societal ills and moved to the suburbs where they could benefit from their proximity to the city without having to suffer its risks and