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Black movement : African American urban history since the Great Migration / edited by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G., (editor).

Summary:

"The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970 fundamentally altered the political, social, and cultural landscapes of major cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit, and changed the country as well. By the late twentieth century, Black people were mayors, police chiefs, and school superintendents, at parity or overrepresented in municipal jobs in these and other cities, which were also hubs for Black literature, music, film, and politics. Since the 1970s, migration patterns have significantly shifted away from the major urban centers of the Great Migration, leaving some iconic Black communities replaced by mostly non-Black residents. Though many books have examined Black urban experiences in America, this is the first written by historians focusing on the post-Great Migration era. It is centered on numerous facets of Black life, including popular culture, policing, suburbanization, and political organizing across multiple cities. In this landmark volume, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar and his contributors explore the last half century of African American urban history, covering a landscape transformed since the end of the Great Migration and demonstrating how cities remain dynamic into the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781469684338
Physical Description: 365 pages : 24 cm.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; 2025.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Making sense of African Americans and the city since the Great Migration / Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar -- A piece of the action: Black mayors, the Black business class, and Black progress in urban America, 1965-1995 / Tom Adam Davies -- Black mecca or Black dystopia? Race, class, and power in Atlanta / Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar -- Greetings earthlings, take me to your leader: a post-1968 history of Black Atlanta through the prism of Black sci-fi / Maurice J. Hobson -- Bands to make you dance: Dayton, Ohio, Black bands and popular music / Scot Brown -- We are all in the same boat now: Mel King and the origins of Boston's Rainbow Coalition / Tatiana M.F. Cruz -- Living and working in a world of overlapping diasporas: Black New Yorkers' history in the metropolis since the 1970s / Brian Purnell -- Unmooring and tethering African American, Puerto Rican, and West Indian lives: new conceptual frameworks for interrogating three great migration traditions in Hartford, Connecticut / Fiona Vernal -- What did Rockefeller do about the crooked cop who sell you drugs? Black protest and the politics of safety in the early 1970s / Shannon King -- They chained me to a refrigerator like a dog: New York Black women, police violence, and resistance during the Reagan era / LaShawn Harris -- A bigger, better jail: from jail overcrowding to the shackling of Black Chicago during the war on drugs era / Melanie D. Newport -- Topology of flames: the political ecology of fire in late twentieth-century Philadelphia / J.T. Roane -- Chasing angels: Black life in Los Angeles since 1965 / Stefan M. Bradley -- Camden rising? The Black struggle for racial justice, equity, and inclusion in the age of urban revitalization, 1971-2020 / Chanelle Rose and Benjamin H. Saracco -- The Black mecca: Atlanta and twenty-first-century Black movement / Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.