The City Is the Black Man's Land

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ID9201601
AuthorsJames Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs
Year1966
Volume17
Issue11
Pages35
Publication date1966-04-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMonthly Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520
PublisherMonthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14452/mr-017-11-1966-04_4
OpenAlexW1974375541
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Population experts predict that by 1970 Afro-Americans will constitute the majority in 50 of the nation's largest cities. In Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J., Afro-Americans are already a majority. In Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, and St. Louis they are one third or more of the population and in a number of others, e.g., Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Oakland, they constitute well over one fourth. There are more Afro-Americans in New York City than in the entire state of Mississippi. Even where they are not yet a majority, as in Detroit, their school children are now well over 50 percent of the school population.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

Genealogy · Geography · Population · Sociology · State (computer science) · Demography · History · Medicine · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Gerontology

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