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Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America by Marcus Anthony Hunter (Paperback, 2015)

W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a largely white upper middle class neighborhood. Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led anti-urban renewal mobilization, and post-Civil Rights political change from the perspective of the Black Seventh Warders. Drawing on historical, political, and sociological research, Marcus Hunter argues that black Philadelphians were by means mere casualties of the large scale social and political changes that altered urban dynamics across the nation after World War II. Instead, Hunter shows that black Americans framed their own understandings of urban social change, forging dynamic inter- and intra-racial alliances that allowed them to shape their own migration from the old Black Seventh Ward to emergent black urban enclaves throughout Philadelphia. These Philadelphians were t victims forced from their homes - they were citymakers and agents of urban change. Black Citymakers explores a century of socioecomic, cultural, and political history in the Black Seventh Ward, creating a new understanding of the political agency of black residents, leaders and activists in twentieth century urban change.

Place of Publication
New York
Spine
19mm
First Published
2015
Content Note
32 Figures; 8 Tables
Author Biography
Marcus Anthony Hunter Is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Date of Publication
01/04/2015
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Regional History

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