Description: Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination
Review Quotes: For anyone who wants fully to grasp what has made this nation's cities the extraordinary, vibrant, and contested crucibles of hope, struggle, and determined justice that they always have been and still must be, this new collection from the top scholars of African American history is both beautiful and essential reading.--Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy