Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism

by Gregory Smithsimon

Book Overview

A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road , Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Baltimore, Smithsimon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479861499
• ISBN13: 9781479861491
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"