
Black Politics in Transition
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Candis Smith and Christina Greer have filled a significant void. This is the first book to examine how Black migratory patterns within metropolitan regions, urban neighborhoods, and across state boundaries-combined with the influx of Blacks from Africa and the Caribbean-have transformed Black Politics. Black Politics in Transition adds new insights and theories about African American political life.Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy & Professor of Political Science, Brown University, author of Black Social Capital
Transitions are exciting, intimidating, hopeful, sad-and transformative. This book's focus on immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification is right on the front edge of scholarship, racial and ethnic politics, and individual choice or constraint. It sets us up for the next few decades of research on race in America.
Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Christina M. Greer is Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University. She also has affiliations with the Urban Studies Program and American Studies Department.
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Candis Watts Smith
Part I All in the Family?: The Political Dynamics of Black Ethnic Immigration and Diversification
Chapter 1 African American, Black Ethnic, and Dominican Political Relations in Contemporary New York City
Sharon D. Wright Austin
Chapter 2 Black Immigration and Ethnic Respectability: A Tale of Two Cities, New York and Los Angeles
Cory Charles Gooding
Part II Black (In)Visibility: New Insights on Majority-Minority Cities
Chapter 3 A Sanctuary for Whom?: Race, Immigration, and the Black Public Sphere
Niambi M. Carter
Chapter 4 The Three Dimensions of Political Incorporation: Black Politics in a Majority-Minority City
Andrea Benjamin
Part III Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Politics of Black Suburbanites
Chapter 5 The Needles in the Haystack: Assessing the Effects of Time, Place, and Class on Blacks in Majority-White Suburbs
Ernest B. McGowen III
Chapter 6 Black Come-Outers and the Counterpublic: How Suburbanization is Diversifying Black Attitudes
Reuel R. Rogers
Part IV There Goes the Neighborhood: The Complexities of Racialized Neighborhood Change
Chapter 7 Moving Up, Out, and Across the Country: Regional Differences in the Causes of Neighborhood Change and its Effect on African Americans
Jessica Lynn Stewart
Chapter 8 "People were not as friendly as I had hoped": Black Residential Experiences in Two Multiracial Neighborhoods
Sarah Mayorga-Gallo
Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?
Christina M. Greer
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