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"Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. In the first history of such a community, this book sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which race and class have shaped residential development in the suburbs.".
"Relying on both interviews with residents and archival research, Bruce D. Hayne describes the progressive stages in the life of Runyon Heights, from the circumstances surrounding its founding through its development of solidarity, identity, and political consciousness.
He shows how residents came to recognize 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.
This unique history reveals the ways in which a black middle-class community has dealt with the tensions between the political interests of race and the material interests of class."--BOOK JACKET.
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African Americans, Economic conditions, Ethnic neighborhoods, History, Middle class, Race relations, Social classes, Social conditions, Noirs américains, Classes sociales, Ethnische Beziehungen, Conditions économiques, Middle class African Americans, Quartiers ethniques, Histoire, Classes moyennes, Conditions sociales, Relations raciales, Soziale Situation, African americans, new york (state), Social classes, united states, New york (state), social conditionsPlaces
New York (State), Yonkers, Yonkers (N.Y.)Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-class Suburb
October 18, 2006, Yale University Press
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0300124546 9780300124545
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Red lines, black spaces: the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburb
2001, Yale University Press
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0300084900 9780300084900
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"Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, Yonkers experienced a period of unprecedented industrial expansion that affected both population growth and future residential development."
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