Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: The Second Great Migration and the New Immigration
7. 1. The Second Great Migration: A Historical Overview 19
8. 2. Blacks, Latinos, and the New Racial Frontier in American Cities of Color: California’s Emerging Minority-Majority Cities 39
9. 3. The Young Lords and the Postwar City: Notes on the Geographical and Structural Reconfigurations of Contemporary Urban Life 60
10. 4. Great Expectations: African American and Latino Relations in Phoenix since World War II 83
11. 5. Citizens and Workers: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia’s Regional Economy since World War II 98
12. Part Two: The Second Ghetto and the Suburb
13. 6. Realtors and Racism in Working-Class Philadelphia, 1945–1970 123
14. 7. Deadly Inequalities: Race, Illness, and Poverty in Washington, D.C., since 1945 142
15. 8. “The House I Live In”: Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States 160
16. Part Three: Class, Race, and Politics
17. 9. All Across the Nation: Urban Black Activism, North and South, 1965–1975 181
18. 10. Harvesting the Crisis: The Newark Uprising, the Kerner Commission, and Writings on Riots 203
19. 11. Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945–1969 219
20. 12. “Trouble Won’t Last”: Black Church Activism in Postwar Philadelphia 245
21. 13. The Black Professional Middle Class and the Black Community: Racialized Class Formation in Oakland and the East Bay 263
22. Part Four: Gender, Class, and Social-Welfare Policy
23. 14. Shifting Paradigms of Black Women’s Work in the Urban North and West: World War II to the Present 295
24. 15. “Something’s Wrong Down Here”: Poor Black Women and Urban Struggles for Democracy 316
25. 16. Gendering Postwar Urban History: African American Women, Welfare, and Poverty in Philadelphia 337
26. Part Five: Culture, Consumption, and the Black Community
27. 17. African American Consumers since World War II 359
28. 18. Black Dollar Power: Assessing African American Consumerism since 1945 376
29. 19. Race, Place, and Memory: African American Tourism in the Postindustrial City 404
30. Notes 425
31. Index 513