African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City

2002 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 724
Author(s):  
Michael W. Homel ◽  
David R. Colburn ◽  
Jeffrey S. Adler
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American City ◽  
Race Politics

Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Robert W. Snyder ◽  
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Race Politics ◽  
Swing Era

RACE AND IMMIGRATION IN THE AMERICAN CITY: INTRODUCTION

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-319
Author(s):  
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Special Section ◽  
First Century ◽  
American City ◽  
Intergroup Dynamics ◽  
Race Politics ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
The University

This special section of the Du Bois Review had its origin in a conference on “Race and Immigration in the American City: New Perspectives on Twenty-First Century Intergroup Relations,” which the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture convened at the University of Chicago on May 27, 2011. The conference explored the nature of intergroup dynamics within multiracial and multiethnic contexts since 1964, when cities across the land were gradually transformed by the arrival of large numbers of new immigrants hailing from Asia and Latin America. Of particular interest were relations between African Americans and Latinos, two highly racialized groups who are often deemed in fierce competition with each other for poorly paid, unskilled jobs. The essays gathered here are the fruits of that conference.

“A Great Injustice”: Urban Capitalism and the Limits of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century New York City

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422097611
Author(s):  
Alexander Manevitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
York City ◽  
Early History ◽  
American City ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Central Park ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
History Of

Seneca Village was the largest African American landowning community in New York City until it was destroyed to build Central Park. Although it has largely been overlooked, Seneca Village reframes the early history of American capitalism at the intersection of race, freedom, and urban development, diversifying the narrative to place African American city-dwellers as actors at the center of the narrative. Real estate capitalism made Seneca Village possible, with residents using it as a means to social, political, and economic advancement, but it also destroyed Seneca Village. That paradox reveals how an emerging American urban commercial capitalism consolidated power in places Seneca Villagers could not access even when they tried. These men and women played critical, yet unacknowledged, roles as the whole nation struggled to navigate multiple visions of capitalism, their inherent inequalities, and their implications for the future.

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