| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Race and Place in Industrial Yonkers""; ""2 The Peopling of Nepperhan""; ""3 Working-Class Roots""; ""4 E Pluribus Unum""; ""5 Nepperhan: The Prewar Years""; ""6 Runyon Heights: The Postwar Years""; ""7 Eisenhower Republicans and Republican Democrats""; ""8 Defining Black Space""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- History.
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African Americans. |
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New York (State) -- Yonkers. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Middle class -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- History.
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Middle class. |
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Social classes -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- History.
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Social classes. |
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Ethnic neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- History.
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Ethnic neighborhoods. |
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Yonkers (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
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Yonkers (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haynes, Bruce D., 1960- Red lines, black spaces. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001 0300084900 9780300084900 (DLC) 2001026308 (OCoLC)46952164 |
| ISBN |
9780300129861 (electronic book) |
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0300129866 (electronic book) |
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9780300084900 (alkaline paper) |
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0300084900 (alkaline paper) |
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128172212X |
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9781281722126 |
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