Candis Watts Smith - Black Politics in Transition: Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification

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 boundariescombined with the influx of Blacks from Africa and the Caribbeanhave 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, sadand transformative. This books 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

Black Politics in Transition considers the impact of three transformative forcesimmigration, suburbanization, and gentrificationon Black politics today. Demographic changes resulting from immigration and ethnic blending are dramatically affecting the character and identity of Black populations throughout the US. Black Americans are becoming more ethnically diverse at the same time that they are sharing space with newcomers from near and far. In addition, the movement of Black populations out of the cities to which they migrated a generation agoa reverse migration to the American South, in some cases, and in other cases a movement from cities to suburbs shifts the locus of Black politics. At the same time, middle class and white populations are returning to cities, displacing low income Blacks and immigrants alike in a renewal of gentrification. All this makes for an important laboratory of discovery among social scientists, including the diverse range of authors represented here. Drawing on a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and methodological strategies, original chapters analyze the geography of opportunity for Black Americans and Black politics in accessible, jargon-free language. Moving beyond the Blackwhite binary, this book explores the tri-part relationship among Blacks, whites, and Latinos as well. Some of the most important developments in Black politics are happening at state and local levels today, and this book captures that for students, scholars, and citizens engaged in this dynamic milieu.

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.

In collaboration with the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke University

This series is devoted to publishing studies that examine and explain the dramatic transformations in race, ethnicity, and gender politics over the past decade. We welcome work that highlights and analyzes the ways that race, ethnicity, and genderand especially, their various intersectionsinteract to shape political institutions, individual attitudes and behaviors, social norms, and the policy-making process. Books in the series will include original scholarly research, core textbooks, supplementary topical books, and reference works.

Jerome Hunt and Shameka Nicole Cathey

Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification

https://www.routledge.com/Race-Ethnicity-and-Gender-in-Politics-and-Policy/book-series/REGPP

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Fordham University

Published 2019

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Sharon D. Wright Austin is Director of the African American Studies Program and Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She received a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is the author of three booksRace, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis (Routledge, 1999); The Transformation of Plantation Politics in the Mississippi Delta: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta (SUNY Press 2007); and The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America (SUNY Press, 2018). She is also the author of several scholarly articles.

Andrea Benjamin is Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She is the author of Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting