TY - JOUR
AB - Book Reviews 301 For every community that thwarted the missing such inquir y into political labels (pp. freeway, many more fell to the bulldozers— 66–67). usually communities of color that lacked Despite these shortcomings, Avila’s work the resources to wage long and costly politi - is an important history of the modernist city cal campaigns. Ritzy Beverly Hills defeated a and its discontents, transforming the narrativ e proposed freeway while Boyle Heights, - a raof the freeway revolt. If modernism has lost cially diverse working-class neighborhood much of its former cachet, the v of ast highway Los Angeles, gave way to six freeways and two system continues to expand, and, as Avila - re interchanges. In New Orleans, preserv-ation veals, so does resistance. ists stopped freeways from demolishing the Aaron Cavin French Quarter but not Faubourg Tremé, a Miami University historic neighborhood of free people of color Oxford, Ohio and a cultural center for the city’s black popu - doi: 10.1093/jahist/jav196 lation. While communities of color rarely pr- event ed freeway development, they did critique it, River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis largely through cultural expressions that have Freedom Movement, 1865–1954. By Eliza - been overlooked by 
TI - River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865–1954
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jav306
DA - 2015-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/river-of-hope-black-politics-and-the-memphis-freedom-movement-1865-hSuLpXWmDN
SP - 301
EP - 302
VL - 102
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -