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Author Freeman, Lance, author.

Title A haven and a hell : the ghetto in black America / Lance Freeman.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (318 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto's role as haven or hell to wax and wane.
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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Subject African American neighborhoods -- Social conditions.
African American neighborhoods.
Social conditions.
African American neighborhoods -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Discrimination in housing -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in housing.
United States.
History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Freeman, Lance. Haven and a hell. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231184601 (DLC) 2018027639 (OCoLC)1035444344
ISBN 9780231545570 (electronic)
0231545576
9780231184601 (electronic book)
0231184603 (electronic book)