| Hilfiker Outline: 1865-1900
US Industrial Revolution: Manufacturing, Railroads,
Meat Packing
Population Boom in Northern Cities: European Immigrant
Waves (Irish, German, Greek, Italian)
Immigrant Clusters in city centers include blacks
Heterogeneous Neighborhoods (No Mass Transit = Walking
Cities)
Upward Mobility for European Immigrants
Sharecropping and Segregation in the South: (Cotton:
High Demand for Unskilled Labor) |
1910-1960
Industrialized Northern Cities (Pull of Jobs)
Mechanization of Cotton Picking (Push)
Great Migration: 1.5-2 million (WWI to Depression)
2nd Great Migration: 4-6 million (post-WWII)
Segregated, Over Crowded Housing, yet Vertical
Integration:
African-American Cultural Heyday: Jazz, Harlem
Renaissance, Chicago Blues, Penn. Ave. in Baltimore
Highway System/ Suburbs |
1950-1970
Continued US Manufacturing Boom
Civil Rights Movement: "life and liberty"
Block Busting and Redlining
"War on Poverty" fails
Vietnam/Riots/Assassinations: Collapse of Liberal
Consensus
White Flight
Middle Class Black Flight
Nixon and Welfare |
1970-2008
Economic Globalization: Shipping, Highways,
Automation: Decline of Big Labor
Collapse of Blue Collar Job Base
Decline of Urban Tax Base: Schools, Police, Social
Service, Infrastructure
Service Economy/ Drug Trade
Concentrated Poverty
The Modern Ghetto |
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