Chapter 6. “The House I Live In”: Race, Class, and Suburban Dreams in the Postwar Period

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. The Outskirts of Town: The Geography of Black Suburbanization Before 1940 11
6. Chapter 2. “Who Set You Flowin’?”: The Great Migration, Race, and Work in the Suburbs 34
7. Chapter 3. Places of Their Own: An African American Suburban Dream 67
8. Chapter 4. “Forbidden Neighbors”: White Racism and Black Suburbanites, 1940–1960 94
9. Chapter 5. Driving a Wedge of Opportunity: Black Suburbanization in the North and West, 1940–1960 110
10. Chapter 6. “The House I Live In”: Race, Class, and Suburban Dreams in the Postwar Period 143
11. Chapter 7. Separate Suburbanization in the South, 1940–1960 164
12. Chapter 8. Something Old, Something New: Suburbanization in the Civil Rights Era, 1960–1980 209
13. Chapter 9. The Next Great Migration: African American Suburbanization in the 1980s and 1990s 255
14. Notes 293
15. Index 375