Struggle for the Street : Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh

Jessica D. Klanderud

ISBN 10: 146967372X / ISBN 13: 9781469673721

Editore: The University Of North Carolina Press, 2023

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Cities are nothing without the streets the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh s African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality.In chapters that move from one community to the next, Klanderud tracks the transformation of tactics over time with a streets-eye view that reveals the coalescing alliances between neighbors and through space. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level.

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• Titolo: Struggle for the Street : Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh
• Editore: The University Of North Carolina Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 146967372X
• ISBN 13: 9781469673721
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 156 A x 14 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 14 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 405 grammi

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Riassunto

Cities are nothing without the streets—the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh’s African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality.

In chapters that move from one community to the next, Klanderud tracks the transformation of tactics over time with a streets-eye view that reveals the coalescing alliances between neighbors and through space. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level.

Informazioni sull'autore

Jessica D. Klanderud is associate professor of African and African American studies and history at Berea College.