Sublime

“Pretty soon,” says Professor Eli Ginzberg of Columbia University, an expert on manpower mobility, “we’re all going to be metropolitan-type people in this country without ties or commitments to long time friends and neighbors.”

The most threatening racist movement is not the alt right’s unlikely drive for a White ethnostate but the regular American’s drive for a “race-neutral” one. The construct

The middle-class African American enclave of Liberty City began to change earlier, in the 1960s, when I-95 was built right through Overtown, displacing residents. And as a result of changes wrought by the civil rights movement, middle-class Black people started to move into neighborhoods previously covered by racially restrictive covenants that had

In 1970, DC was 71.1 percent Black. In 2017, it was 47.1 percent Black. Chocolate City is slipping away. Just take a look at the astronomical real estate listings or the “revitalized” neighborhoods. There are no historic firsts, no grand gestures, no monuments or museums that undo generations of exclusions under law, policy, and practice, or that

And political scientist Daniel Elazar describes the great masses of Americans who “have begun to move from place to place within each [urban] belt…preserving a nomadic way of life that is urban without being permanently attached to any particular city…”