| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Wiese. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii, 411 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-226-89641-2.)
For decades urban historians have sensed that black suburbia demanded closer study, but its apparent novelty made it a dubious historical subject. Nor does the story of black suburbia comfortably fit into the dominant urban historiography that demonizes suburbanites. The black suburban story has until now been told only in the popular press or in focused community monographs.	1
Andrew Wiese begins Places of Their Own and his case for the importance of black suburbanization by pushing back the timeline of black suburbia to the early twentieth century. These early black suburbs shared much with white working-class streetcar suburbs but little with exclusive planned subdivisions; blacks clustered and were restricted to peripheral industrial suburbs, domestic service towns, or informal rural clusters. In some of these suburbs blacks slowly built their own homes, tended vegetable gardens, and raised chickens; almost all black suburbanites idealized rural life, thrift, church, and family.	. . .

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