White Flight/Black Flight

The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood

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ID20005792
AuthorsRachael A Woldoff (0000-0003-2996-4252, corresponding author), Rachael Woldoff
Year2011
Pages252
Publication date2011-03-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWhite flight/black flight (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/cornell/9780801449185.001.0001
OpenAlexW2583339504
Open LibraryOL24881719M
ISBN9780801449185
LanguageEN
Citations received42

Urban residential integration is often fleeting—a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. This book takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book presents a portrait of a working-class neighborhood in the aftermath of white flight, illustrating cultural clashes that accompany racial change as well as common values that transcend race, from the perspectives of three groups: white stayers, black pioneers, and "second-wave" blacks. The book offers a fresh look at race and neighborhoods by documenting a two-stage process of neighborhood transition and focusing on the perspectives of two understudied groups: newly arriving black residents and whites who have stayed in the neighborhood. The book describes the period of transition when white residents still remain, though in diminishing numbers, and a second, less discussed stage of racial change: black flight. It reveals what happens after white flight is complete: "Pioneer" blacks flee to other neighborhoods or else adjust to their new segregated residential environment by coping with the loss of relationships with their longer-term white neighbors, signs of community decline, and conflicts with the incoming second wave of black neighbors

Archaeology · Economic geography · Geography · Inner city · Portrait · Race (biology) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · African American neighborhoods · African americans · Case studies · Demographic transition · Ethnic neighborhoods · race relations · Residential mobility · Social change · Social conditions · united states

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