The Black Urban Community

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Civilization and Its Discontents: Black Life in the Eighteenth-Century Cities of British North America

Chapter 3 Memories of Hayti: African American Community in Durham, North Carolina, 1890–1970

Chapter 4 Discovering an African American Planning History

Chapter 5 Historic Designation and the Preservation of Public Housing

Chapter 6 Entering the New City as Men and Women, Not Mules

Chapter 7 “Faces at the Bottom of the Well”:African American Poverty and the Postindustrial City at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 8 African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown:An Exploration of African Trading Networks in New York City

Chapter 9 Globalization, Cities, and Racial Inequality: Don’t Believe the Hype

Chapter 10 “The Pupil of the Eye:” African Americans and the Making of the American Community, 1898–2003

Chapter 11 Varieties of Spiritual Experience: Magic, Occultism, and Alternative Supernatural Traditions among African Americans in the Cities, 1915–39

Chapter 12 The Leadership of Reverend Robert L. Bradby and the Black Community in East Industrial Detroit

Chapter 13 Drugs, Race, and State Power: The Urban Terrain

Chapter 14 Unsuspecting Women and the Dreaded Bisexual

Chapter 15 The War on Drugs and Welfare Policy:The Impact of Their Intersection on Black Women in Urban America

Chapter 16 African Americans’ Strive for Educational Self-Determination in Cincinnati Before 1873

Chapter 17 In Whose Interest: Chicago Schools in the 1960s

Chapter 18 Robert Wagner, Milton Galamison, and the Challenge to New York City Liberalism

Chapter 19 From the North to the Deep South:The Civil Rights Journey of the Freedom Riders

Chapter 20 Southern Cities and Preclearance:The US Department of Justice and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Chapter 21 The Continuing Significance of Race:African American and Hispanic Mayors, 1968–2003

Chapter 22 Changing Demographics and the Unchanging Nature of Power in New York

Chapter 23 Black Mayors in Large Cities: A Historical Perspective

Chapter 24 The Black Panther Party, Poetry Performance, and Revolution

Chapter 25 Panthers and Dragons On the Page: The Afro-Asian Dynamic in the Black Aesthetic

Chapter 26 The Diasporic Imagination of Wynton Marsalis

Chapter 27 Constructions of Gender and Dialogues on Relationships in Rap Music

Chapter 28 Hip Hop as Political Expression: Potentialities for the Power of Voice in Urban America