Table of Contents

Introduction: Black Flight

Candis Watts Smith

Part I All in the Family?: The Political Dynamics of Black Ethnic Immigration and Diversification

Chapter 1 African American, Black Ethnic, and Dominican Political Relations in Contemporary New York City

Sharon D. Wright Austin

Chapter 2 Black Immigration and Ethnic Respectability: A Tale of Two Cities, New York and Los Angeles

Cory Charles Gooding

Part II Black (In)Visibility: New Insights on Majority-Minority Cities

Chapter 3 A Sanctuary for Whom?: Race, Immigration, and the Black Public Sphere

Niambi M. Carter

Chapter 4 The Three Dimensions of Political Incorporation: Black Politics in a Majority-Minority City

Andrea Benjamin

Part III Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Politics of Black Suburbanites

Chapter 5 The Needles in the Haystack: Assessing the Effects of Time, Place, and Class on Blacks in Majority-White Suburbs

Ernest B. McGowen III

Chapter 6 Black Come-Outers and the Counterpublic: How Suburbanization is Diversifying Black Attitudes

Reuel R. Rogers

Part IV There Goes the Neighborhood: The Complexities of Racialized Neighborhood Change

Chapter 7 Moving Up, Out, and Across the Country: Regional Differences in the Causes of Neighborhood Change and its Effect on African Americans

Jessica Lynn Stewart

Chapter 8 "People were not as friendly as I had hoped": Black Residential Experiences in Two Multiracial Neighborhoods

Sarah Mayorga-Gallo

Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?

Christina M. Greer

About the Author

Candis Watts Smith is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She also has affiliations with the Department of African and African American Diaspora Studies and Department of Political Science.





Christina M. Greer is Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University. She also has affiliations with the Urban Studies Program and American Studies Department.

Reviews

Candis Smith and Christina Greer have filled a significant void. This is the first book to examine how Black migratory patterns within metropolitan regions, urban neighborhoods, and across state boundaries—combined with the influx of Blacks from Africa and the Caribbean—have transformed Black Politics. Black Politics in Transition adds new insights and theories about African American political life. Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy & Professor of Political Science, Brown University, author of Black Social Capital Transitions are exciting, intimidating, hopeful, sad—and transformative. This book’s focus on immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification is right on the front edge of scholarship, racial and ethnic politics, and individual choice or constraint. It sets us up for the next few decades of research on race in America. Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University