Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism

Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism
ISBN-10
1479861499
ISBN-13
9781479861491
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2022-04-12
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Gregory Smithsimon

Description

"Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Randallstown, Maryland, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban Whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs"--

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