The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968

by Christopher Silver and John V. Moeser

A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern counterparts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813156254
• ISBN13: 9780813156255
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher