Word: suburbias
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...packed her tricorn hat and cape and, after 36 years in Brooklyn, moved to Manhattan. The swamps and old fishing villages in the further reaches have given way to modern subdivisions that most young couples rising in the world regard as mere way stations on the road to suburbia. "Long Island, that's the thing," said Mrs. Myra Gershowitz, 24, as she pushed a baby carriage around Sheepshead Bay. "Everybody's moving to the island. You think you're missing something if you don't move out there...
...train, the subway, the telephone, the telegraph, and eventually the automobile, foreshortened distances; the countryside beckoned, and people sick of inner-city congestion rushed in hordes to the cool green plots of suburbia...
...changing race structure. Says Economist Miles Colean: "We can't get around the sad fact that middle-class families living in the city who depend on public schools have not made up their minds that they can live with Negroes." Weaver adds pointedly: "We need an open suburbia-not just an upper-and middle-income-class suburbia...
Pettigrew, author of Profile of the Negro American, is particularly concerned with the role of suburbia in desegregation, which he termed "the white noose about the Negro neck...
...Oppressed One (the "guilt-ridden white" in Zigmond's terms) or as an agent of massive social change (the "utopian white"). This however hardly exhausts the possibilities. Some seek an escape from the boredom of affluence, or the puritanism of the middle middle class, or the rootlessness of suburbia, etc. For Zigmond's detached approach to yield significant observations, it must proceed further than he takes it; it must attempt a complete analysis of the psychology of the white volunteer, at various levels of commitment...