city residential integration is frequently fleeting—a short photo that belies a fancy means of racial turnover in lots of U.S. towns. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers within an area that has shifted swiftly and dramatically in race composition over the past 20 years. The ebook provides a portrait of a working-class local within the aftermath of white flight, illustrating cultural clashes that accompany racial swap in addition to universal values that go beyond race, from the views of 3 teams: white stayers, black pioneers, and “second-wave” blacks. Rachael A. Woldoff bargains a clean examine race and neighborhoods by way of documenting a two-stage technique of local transition and targeting the views of 2 understudied teams: newly arriving black citizens and whites who've stayed locally. Woldoff describes the interval of transition whilst white citizens nonetheless stay, notwithstanding in diminishing numbers, and a moment, much less mentioned degree of racial switch: black flight. She finds what occurs after white flight is entire: “Pioneer” blacks flee to different neighborhoods in any other case comply with their new segregated residential surroundings via dealing with the lack of relationships with their longer-term white pals, indicators of group decline, and conflicts with the incoming moment wave of black friends. Readers will locate a number of marvelous and compelling twists to the white flight tale on the topic of confident family among aged stayers and the striving pioneers, clash between black citizens, and transformations in cultural understandings of what constitutes crime and disorder.