Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

by Marcus Anthony Hunter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190249676
• ISBN13: 9780190249670
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"