African American Urban History Negroes in Cities 1965 Study of Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change

Residential Segregation

First Edition

Taeuber, Karl E., and Alma F. Negroes in Cities (1965) is a major work of Civil Rights Era social science that analyzes residential segregation in American cities through demographic and statistical evidence. Published in the same year as the Voting Rights Act, the book supports research into African American urban history, housing discrimination, postwar metropolitan development, and the persistence of racial inequality outside the formal structures of Southern Jim Crow. Its importance lies in its sustained demonstration that discriminatory housing patterns remained deeply embedded in northern and midwestern cities through real estate practice, local governance, and neighborhood transition, making it a foundational study in the history of race and urban policy.
Taeuber, Karl E., and Alma F. Taeuber. Negroes in Cities: Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1965. First edition. The text draws on census data and quantitative analysis to examine racial segregation and neighborhood change across American urban centers, tracing how Black residents were concentrated within restricted residential zones even as legal segregation was increasingly challenged elsewhere. The authors analyze mechanisms including discriminatory real estate practices, exclusionary zoning, and white flight, presenting segregation as a measurable and durable feature of postwar urban life. As a sociological study grounded in data rather than polemic, the book documents the institutional conditions shaping Black residence, mobility, and access to urban space during the height of the civil rights movement.
Original mustard cloth boards stamped in white and black on front cover and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. 367 pages.Octavo. Light rubbing to boards with scattered small dark specks, minor soil to rear cover, and gentle toning to spine lettering; interior clean and unmarked; binding tight and square; overall very good. Issued at a moment when federal civil rights legislation had not yet resolved the entrenched realities of housing inequality, the book remains an important record of how segregation endured through urban systems that were statistical, spatial, and administrative as much as legal, giving it lasting value for collections on race, cities, and public policy in the modern United States.

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