A01=James Borchert
African American
African American history
alley dwellers
alley house
alley houses
alley life
analysis
analysis of photographs
Author_James Borchert
Black history
Black studies
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collection
community
conversion
description
effects
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faith
families
family
family life
folk migrants
folk studies
folklife
Freedmen
history
history of Washington DC
houses in alleys
images
living in alleys
lower class
migrants
neighborhood
nineteenth century
people living in alleys
photographs
photos
poverty
religion
sociology
study
survey
twentieth century
urban history
urban poor
urbanization
Washington DC
Product details
- ISBN 9780252010033
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1980
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. James Borchert's study delves into the lives and folkways of the largely alley dwellers and how their communities changed from before the Civil War, to the late 1890s era when almost 20,000 people lived in alley houses, to the effects of reform and gentrification in the mid-twentieth century.
James Borchert is an associate professor of community studies and history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
