{"product_id":"class-warfare-in-black-atlanta-grassroots-struggles-power-and-repression-under-gentrification-paperback-softback-9781469685687","title":"Class Warfare in Black Atlanta; Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification (Paperback \/ softback) 9781469685687","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eClass Warfare in Black Atlanta\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGrassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAugustus Wood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781469685687\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 9 halftones, 1 maps, 5 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.574 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBetween 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks to newly enfranchised Black working-class voters. The demographics of the city shifted in the late '60s and early '70s, and the combination of Black empowerment and white flight produced a growing Black working-class majority that increasingly demanded Black Power policies that often clashed with the policies supported by affluent residents. But by the 2010s, Atlanta's city core had been thoroughly gentrified, and the ability of Black working-class Atlantans to organize and build power had diminished significantly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing the history of post–civil rights Black Atlanta through rigorous class analysis, Augustus Wood argues that Black and white elites responded to an energized and politicized Black working class by forging a public-private partnership power bloc in Atlanta, positioning the relatively small but rising Black middle class as participants in the colonizing of working-class Black bodies and spaces—expanding the racial class contradictions in Black Atlanta. This bloc worked to shift state funding away from public services and toward gentrification projects that demolished subsidized housing and ramped up police surveillance to deter working-class resistance. Paying close attention to political economy and class while drawing on unexamined archival sources and oral histories of Black working-class Atlantans, especially Black women, Wood reframes our understanding of contemporary Black urban life by highlighting the centrality of intraracial class conflict in the dynamics of urban space.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653109543192,"sku":"9781469685687","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/class-warfare-in-black-atlanta-grassroots-struggles-power-and-repression-under-gentrification-paperback-softback-9781469685687","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}