Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia negro changed urban America /
Marcus Anthony Hunter.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- xv, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-276) and index.
If these row homes could talk: W.E.B. DuBois, the Philadelphia Negro, and political agency -- A tale of two banks: economic collapse and neighborhood change -- The night the roof caved in: tragedy in the Black seventh ward and the rise of racialized public housing -- Philadelphia's Mason-Dixon line: urban renewal and the crosstown expressway battle -- Philadelphia's Black Belt: post-civil rights Philadelphia, Black politics, and urban change -- Flash (mobs) forward: Black citymakers and urban change.