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Title: Mobilités sociales et spatiales d’Africain·es-Américain·es vers la banlieue de « l’entre-deux » dans la deuxième moitié du 20ème siècle : le cas d’Euclid, Ohio

Citation Type: Journal Article

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ISSN: 1638-1718

DOI: 10.4000/EREA.15657

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Abstract: Through the case study of Euclid, an " inner-ring suburb " and formerly industrial metropolis of Cleveland, Ohio, this article focuses on the demographic changes of these "in-between" suburbs. of the Midwestern Surburbia . Initially largely neglected in scientific and cultural productions in favor of wealthy suburban suburbs, then more recently the subject of increased attention since the strong Black Lives Matter mobilizations of 2014 in Ferguson, a suburb close to Saint Louis, Missouri, these spaces become during the second half of the 20th century privileged sites for a whole section of the “new black middle class” ( the “New Black Middle Class”) then in full social and spatial mobility. Through archival research and the conduct of oral history interviews, this article seeks to reconstruct their migratory journeys, which began in the 1970s from the center of Cleveland, sometimes from elsewhere, to Euclid. It will thus seek to demonstrate how, before revealing themselves, at the beginning of the 21st century , as formidable barometers on the state of racial relations in the United States, these spaces were first of all bearers of the dreams and ambitions of an intermediate but mobile segment of the African-American population claiming their share of material safety and comforts in the suburbs after the Civil Rights Movement.

Url: http://journals.openedition.org/erea/15657

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Authors: MARCHET, Marion

Periodical (Full): E-rea [En ligne]

Issue: 20.1

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Land Use/Urban Organization, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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