Identity and Urban Development in the New South

For an earlier review considering New South distinctiveness, see Kenneth A. Scherzer , "Southern Cities-How Exceptional?" Journal of Urban History 26 (July 2000): 692-706.

William Cronon , Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York , 1991).

Thomas W. Hanchett, Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 38.

Ibid., 49.

Louis M. Kyriakoudes, The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930 (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 151.

On the same phenomenon in Miami, see Raymond A. Mohl , "Making the Second Ghetto in Metropolitan Miami, 1940-1960," Journal of Urban History 21 (March 1995): 395-427, esp. 411-20. In a segregated housing market, these white developers were apparently regarded highly by Miami blacks even though they proffered housing that came with fewer amenities for an inflated price.

Such tactics are discussed far more extensively by Ronald Bayor in Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 53-92; and by Mohl in "Making the Second Ghetto."

Karen Ferguson , Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 25.

Ibid., 266.

Robert B. Fairbanks, For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998); Mohl , "Making the Second Ghetto"; Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960, new ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 1998); Thomas J. Sugrue , The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996); Stephen Grant Meyer , As Long As They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 ).

Tera W. Hunter treats this same incident in much greater detail and comes to quite the opposite conclusion. See Hunter , To `Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 114-20.

Kyriakoudes , Social Origins of the Urban South, 148.

Hunter , To 'Joy My Freedom , 187-218.

Kyriakoudes , Social Origins of the Urban South, 116.

Lizabeth Cohen , Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Ferguson, Black Politics, 82.

Quoted in David Roediger , "Race and the Working Class Past in the United States," International Review of Social History 38, suppl. 1 (1993): 133n17.