Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs And The Battle Between Civil Rights And Neoliberalism - 9781479845118

Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Randallstown, Maryland, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban Whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs--

• | Author: Gregory Smithsimon
• | Publisher: Nyu Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 12, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1479845116
• | ISBN-13: 9781479845118