7. The Choice to Live Differently: Reimagining Integration at Century’s End

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: Civil Rights’ Stepchild 1
6. 1. “A Home of One’s Own”: The Battle over Residential Space in Twentieth- Century America 10
7. 2. Finding Capital in Diversity: The Creation of Racially Integrated Space 31
8. 3. Marketing Integration: Interracial Living in the White Imagination 56
9. 4. Integration, Separation, and the Fight for Black Identity 68
10. 5. “Well- Trained Citizens and Good Neighbors”: Educating an Integrated America 90
11. 6. Confrontations in Black and White: The Crisis of Integration 120
12. 7. The Choice to Live Differently: Reimagining Integration at Century’s End 145
13. Epilogue: West Mount Airy and the Legacy of Integration 168
14. Notes 175
15. Bibliography 213
16. Index 227