The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968 - Paperback

by Christopher Silver (Author), John V. Moeser (Author)

A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern counterparts. The African- American community in the Sout

Author Biography

Christopher Silver is associate dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.

John V. Moeser is chairman of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Virginia Commonwealth University.