| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4 | The History Cooperative

Andrew Wiese. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 411. $37.50.
Until the 1960s, urban scholars and analysts focused largely on issues of the cities. Suburbs were viewed as the products of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century urbanization, when those who could afford to do so moved away from urban problems. Viewed primarily as the idyllic environments of a white upper middle class, the suburbs merited little scholarly interest. Suburban areas that did not fit this ideal model were dismissed as "fringes," "outskirts," or "small towns," thereby reinforcing the middle-class stereotype of suburbs and suburbanites.	1
Andrew Wiese's study of African American suburbs challenges these traditional definitions, arguing that where the cultural norms of a community were at odds with the expectations of the analysts, the definitions trumped the reality, rendering both the suburbs and their residents invisible. As a result of this, the received wisdom on the black middle class in America has been flawed and diminished.	. . .

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