Preston H. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816637027
- eISBN:
- 9781452945811
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816637027.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter provides an account of the efforts of black civic and business elites to lead the redevelopment of black middle-class neighborhoods in order to combat the city’s land-clearance ...
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This chapter provides an account of the efforts of black civic and business elites to lead the redevelopment of black middle-class neighborhoods in order to combat the city’s land-clearance onslaught, and also to serve as a model community for the rest of Bronzeville, Chicago. It discusses the black institutional elites’ promotion of self-help rehabilitation schemes to avoid the demolition of another black neighborhood where middle-class blacks owned homes and rental property. It also shows the black elites’ interest in using new federal, state, and municipal laws to direct conservation efforts in their neighborhoods. Whether black elites wanted to control redevelopment on the Mid-South Side or to safeguard their effluent enclaves in Hyde Park and Kenwood, their housing interests trumped those of working-class blacks.Less
This chapter provides an account of the efforts of black civic and business elites to lead the redevelopment of black middle-class neighborhoods in order to combat the city’s land-clearance onslaught, and also to serve as a model community for the rest of Bronzeville, Chicago. It discusses the black institutional elites’ promotion of self-help rehabilitation schemes to avoid the demolition of another black neighborhood where middle-class blacks owned homes and rental property. It also shows the black elites’ interest in using new federal, state, and municipal laws to direct conservation efforts in their neighborhoods. Whether black elites wanted to control redevelopment on the Mid-South Side or to safeguard their effluent enclaves in Hyde Park and Kenwood, their housing interests trumped those of working-class blacks.
Preston H. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816637027
- eISBN:
- 9781452945811
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816637027.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Black elites reaffirmed the primacy of race by advocating the use of race-neutral occupancy standards, which favored those blacks who had the income and class culture to reside in integrated ...
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Black elites reaffirmed the primacy of race by advocating the use of race-neutral occupancy standards, which favored those blacks who had the income and class culture to reside in integrated middle-class neighborhoods, against race-restrictive covenants. They argued that an open housing market would serve most black housing needs by eliminating race as an allocational principle. Their willingness to substitute class restrictions for racial ones brought about the dominance of racial democracy. Black civic elites defended the anticovenant campaign by pointing out the benefits that the reform would bring to working-class blacks.Less
Black elites reaffirmed the primacy of race by advocating the use of race-neutral occupancy standards, which favored those blacks who had the income and class culture to reside in integrated middle-class neighborhoods, against race-restrictive covenants. They argued that an open housing market would serve most black housing needs by eliminating race as an allocational principle. Their willingness to substitute class restrictions for racial ones brought about the dominance of racial democracy. Black civic elites defended the anticovenant campaign by pointing out the benefits that the reform would bring to working-class blacks.
Willow S. Lung-Amam
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520293892
- eISBN:
- 9780520967229
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520293892.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter explores why the valley became such an important hub of racial and ethnic diversity, especially among recently arrived Asian immigrants in the latter half of the 20th century and the ...
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This chapter explores why the valley became such an important hub of racial and ethnic diversity, especially among recently arrived Asian immigrants in the latter half of the 20th century and the early 21st century. Beginning with a brief look back at the pathways forged by early Asian American pioneers, the chapter focuses on the sweeping changes that occurred in the region economically, spatially, and socially after World War II. The chapter shows how Asian Americans navigated their new terrain and put down roots in working- and middle-class neighborhoods, in particular underscoring how the Fremont suburb's rapid growth and development were prefaced on the valley's booming innovation economy and Asian Americans' own suburban dreams.Less
This chapter explores why the valley became such an important hub of racial and ethnic diversity, especially among recently arrived Asian immigrants in the latter half of the 20th century and the early 21st century. Beginning with a brief look back at the pathways forged by early Asian American pioneers, the chapter focuses on the sweeping changes that occurred in the region economically, spatially, and socially after World War II. The chapter shows how Asian Americans navigated their new terrain and put down roots in working- and middle-class neighborhoods, in particular underscoring how the Fremont suburb's rapid growth and development were prefaced on the valley's booming innovation economy and Asian Americans' own suburban dreams.
Nikhil Rao
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816678129
- eISBN:
- 9781452948034
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816678129.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive ...
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Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. This book considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It explores the organization of the middle-class neighborhood which became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and which has spread throughout the subcontinent. This book examines how the challenge of converting lands from agrarian to urban use created new relations between the state, landholders, and other residents of the city. At the level of dwellings, apartment living in self-contained flats represented a novel form of urban residence, one that expressed a compromise between the caste and class identities of suburban residents who are upper caste but belong to the lower-middle or middle class. Living in such a built environment, under the often conflicting imperatives of maintaining the exclusivity of caste and subcaste while assembling residential groupings large enough to be economically viable, led suburban residents to combine caste with class, type of work, and residence to forge new metacaste practices of community identity.Less
Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. This book considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It explores the organization of the middle-class neighborhood which became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and which has spread throughout the subcontinent. This book examines how the challenge of converting lands from agrarian to urban use created new relations between the state, landholders, and other residents of the city. At the level of dwellings, apartment living in self-contained flats represented a novel form of urban residence, one that expressed a compromise between the caste and class identities of suburban residents who are upper caste but belong to the lower-middle or middle class. Living in such a built environment, under the often conflicting imperatives of maintaining the exclusivity of caste and subcaste while assembling residential groupings large enough to be economically viable, led suburban residents to combine caste with class, type of work, and residence to forge new metacaste practices of community identity.
