On June 22, 1982, I traveled to Gary, Indiana, to interview for the position of chairman of the
Department of Minority Studies at Indiana University's branch campus located there. Gary …

Urban sprawl in predominately African-American cities is examined in terms of racial issues.
It is upper middle class white people that are moving away from the city and taking their …

Many classic studies in urban politics discuss race, yet race has not been theoretically
central to the field of urban politics. Robert Dahl's Who Governs?(1961) examined New …

America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined
sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades. How much of this …

Gary was similar in many ways to other northern industrial towns. Although blacks voted,
discrimination and segregation persisted well past mid-century. While an Urban League …

Public Affairs has completed basic and applied research in the following areas: urban
design, cost-benefit and decision analysis, coastal zone management and environmental …

Nineteen-sixty was an important dynamic political and racial time in the country and city.
Four phenomena must be considered when talking about the black political experience in …

The suburbs of the metropolitan areas exhibit very different population trends. Negroes
made up only 4 per cent of their population in 1940 and less than 5 per cent in 1950. The …