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Article: Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
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- March 22, 2006
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Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Wiese. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Acknowledgments, introduction, notes, and index, xi+411 pp. $37.50 hardback. ISBN: 0-226-89641-2.
In Places of Their Own, Andrew Wiese makes an invaluable contribution to knowledge and understanding of the process of African American suburbanization. It is a welcome addition to the history, and indeed geography, of African American housing patterns, which heretofore have largely concentrated on ghetto formation and the seemingly pervasive problems of such residential conditions. As his title suggests, Wiese argues that ...