Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980

by Todd M Michney

The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed Black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's Black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outside the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469631946
• ISBN13: 9781469631943
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"