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In this history of Cleveland's black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that a nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighbourhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and black poverty.
African American neighborhoods --- Neighborhoods --- Social mobility --- Middle class African Americans --- Afro-American neighborhoods --- Neighborhoods, African American --- Ethnic neighborhoods --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- African Americans --- Middle class --- History --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Housing
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While conventional wisdom asserts that residential racial and economic integration holds great promise for reducing inequality in the United States, Americans are demonstrably not very good at living with difference. Perry's analysis of the multi-ethnic, mixed-income Milwaukee community of Riverwest, where residents maintain relative stability without insisting on conformity, advances our understanding of why and how neighbourhoods matter.
Neighborhoods --- Community life --- Minorities --- Cultural pluralism --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Social conditions. --- Riverwest (Milwaukee, Wis.) --- Ethnic relations.
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