Song of Solomon: Geography

Bestselling author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and hotbeds of racial injustice that sprung up throughout the twentieth century unnoticed, forcing us to reexamine race relations in the United States.

A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

This book examines the century-long migration of African Americans who moved within the South after the Civil War and then left to settle permanently in other regions, irrevocably altering the political, social, and cultural history of the United States; and considers these movements within the broader historical, political, and cultural context of the African Diaspora.

A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries. Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America.

Treating broad themes as well as specific topics, this guide to the Great Black Migration will introduce high school students to a touchstone critical to shaping the history of African Americans in the United States. * Provides students with essential information about key people, places, organizations, and events that defined the movement of Southern African Americans to the urban North and West. Covers the first major migration between the advent of World War I and the Great Depression and the second, smaller wave from 1940 to 1970.

Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization.

Treating broad themes as well as specific topics, this guide to the Great Black Migration will introduce high school students to a touchstone critical to shaping the history of African Americans in the United States. * Provides students with essential information about key people, places, organizations, and events that defined the movement of Southern African Americans to the urban North and West. Covers the first major migration between the advent of World War I and the Great Depression and the second, smaller wave from 1940 to 1970.

Leading scholars examine the conflicting paradigms of affluence and destitution in the United States—as well as other free societies—and discuss the influence of education, race, and status on economic mobility.

Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy--and often sheer folly--of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history.