The Black Urban Community From Dusk Till Dawn

by Tate, Gayle T.; Randolph, Lewis A.

• ISBN13: 9781403970688
• ISBN10: 1403970688
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores the many facets of black urban life from its genesis in the 18th century to the present time. With some historical background, the volume is primarily a contemporary critique, focusing on the major themes which have arisen and the challenges the confront African Americans as they create communities: political economy, religion and spirituality, health care, education, protest, and popular culture. The essays all examine the interplay between culture and politics, and the ways in which forms of cultural expression and political participation have changed over the past century to serve the needs of the black urban community. The collection closes with analysis of current struggles these communities face - joblessness, political discontent, frustrations with health care and urban schools - and the ways in which communities are responding to these challenges.

Author Biography

Gayle Tate is Associate Professor of Political Science in the African Studies Department at Rutgers University. The is the co-editor with Lewis Randolph of Dimensions of Black Conservatism (Palgrave 2002). Lewis Randolph is Professor of Political Science at Ohio University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
Introduction	1	(18)
Part 1 Origins, Protest and Black Community
1. Civilization and Its Discontents: Black Life in the Eighteenth-Century Cities of British North America	19	(22)
Rhett Jones
2. Memories of Hayti: African American Community in Durham, North Carolina, 1890-1970	41	(8)
Oscar R. Williams
3. Discovering an African American Planning History	49	(7)
Joan Fitzgerald and William D. Howard
4. Historic Designation and the Preservation of Public Housing	56	(19)
Mittie Olion Chandler
Part 2 Urban Political Economy and Black Communities
5. Entering the New City as Men and Women, Not Mules	75	(26)
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
6. "Faces at the Bottom of the Well": African American Poverty and the Postindustrial City at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century	101	(26)
Frank Harold Wilson
7. African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown: An Exploration of African Trading Networks in New York City	127	(17)
Paul Stoller
8. Globalization, Cities, and Racial Inequality: Don't Believe the Hype	144	(23)
James B. Stewart
Part 3 Religion, Spirituality, and Faith
9. "The Pupil of the Eye:"African Americans and the Making of the American Community, 1898-2003	167	(26)
Richard W. Thomas
10. Varieties of Spiritual Experience: Magic, Occultism, and Alternative Supernatural Traditions among African Americans in the Cities, 1915-39	193	(11)
Yvonne P. Chireau
11. The Leadership of Reverend Robert L. Bradby and the Black Community in East Industrial Detroit	204	(23)
Julia Robinson Harmon
Part 4 Politics and Policies of Health Care, Disease, and Drugs
12. Drugs, Race, and State Power: The Urban Terrain	227	(17)
Rae Banks
13. Unsuspecting Women and the Dreaded Bisexual	244	(24)
Cathy J. Cohen
14. The War on Drugs and Welfare Policy: The Impact of Their Intersection on Black Women in Urban America	268	(17)
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Part 5 Urban Education: A Historical Lens
15. African Americans' Strive for Educational Self-Determination in Cincinnati Before 1873	285	(17)
Nikki Taylor
16. In Whose Interest: Chicago Schools in the 1960's	302	(17)
Dionne Danns
Part 6 Political Protest and Electoral Politics
17. Robert Wagner, Milton Galamison, and the Challenge to New York City Liberalism	319	(12)
Clarence Taylor
18. From the North to the Deep South: The Civil Rights Journey of the Freedom Riders	331	(21)
David Niven
19. Southern Cities and Preclearance: The US Department of Justice and the Voting Rights Act of 1965	352	(13)
Keesha M. Middlemass
20. The Continuing Significance of Race: African American and Hispanic Mayors, 1968-2003	365	(16)
Neil Kraus and Todd Swanstrom
21. Changing Demographics and the Unchanging Nature of Power in New York	381	(17)
Basil Wilson and Charles Green
22. Black Mayors in Large Cities: A Historical Perspective	398	(17)
Marcus D. Pohlmann
Part 7 Popular Culture, Political Expression and the Spoken Word
23. The Black Panther Party, Poetry Performance, and Revolution	415	(12)
Regina Jennings
24. Panthers and Dragons On the Page: The Afro-Asian Dynamic in the Black Aesthetic	427	(11)
Crystal S. Anderson
25. The Diasporic Imagination of Wynton Marsalis	438	(11)
David Stowe
26. Constructions of Gender and Dialogues on Relationships in Rap Music	449	(16)
Gwendolyn D. Pough
27. Hip Hop as Political Expression: Potentialities for the Power of Voice in Urban America	465	(10)
Melina Abdullah
Index	475