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Lee, Calinda. "Creating the Pleasant View: The Impact of Gender, Race, and Class on African American Suburbanization, 1837-1999," Emory University, March 2002.
Relying heavily upon oral history and black feminist theory, this manuscript explores the intersections of classed, raced, and gendered identity formation. Creating the Pleasant View engages a case study approach to consider the men and women of the Pleasant View community in Baltimore County, Maryland. An all-black neighborhood perched in the middle of an overwhelmingly white county, Pleasant View was simultaneously integrated and segregated. Thus, it offers and excellent view of the articulation between two worlds, focusing closely at the point when national discourse became most attentive to the political, economic, and social realities of the integration process. Through the lens of Pleasant View, this dissertation raises critical questions about: 1) class identity construction among middle class Blacks; 2) reactions to and strategies for influence upon public policy by this population; and 3) the successes and failures of residential integration from the perspective of comparatively affluent Blacks. As Pleasant View’s women played central roles in shaping family and community life over the last forty years, their stories provide a glimpse into the specific meanings of post-war middle class African American womanhood. As the women of Pleasant View asserted their desire for strong community and personal financial gratification, they belied post-war stereotypes of both women and Blacks. Progressive workers and conservative wives, they challenged male-identified political activism and, ultimately, questioned the efficacy of class-based racial integration. Although scholars have tried, the national post-war phenomenon of “white flight” out of the central city cannot be discussed without considering the impact of African Americans. Black people, too, moved to the suburbs, fleeing inner-city dirt, crime, taxes, density, and politics. The peculiar experiences of African American men and women helped to shape a peculiarly racinated and gendered middle class suburban identity.
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