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Race and the politics of deception : the making of an American city
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- Creator
- Christopher Mele
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [2017]
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1479866091, 1479871230, 9781479866090, 9781479880430, 9781479871230, 1479880434
- OCLC
- ocn946161354, ocn963794940
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Race strategies and the politics of urban development -- The racial divide in the making of Chester -- How to make a ghetto -- The Birmingham of the north -- Five square miles of hell -- Welcome to the "post-racial" black city
Subjects
- Chester (Pa.) -- Race relations.
- Chester (Pa.) -- Politics and government.
- Chester (Pa.) -- Economic conditions.
- Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Case studies.
- Urban policy -- Pennsylvania -- Case studies.
- Racism -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Chester -- History.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.