Immigration, movement to the suburbs, and gentrification run through this collection on the shifting terrain of Black politics in the United States. Candis Watts Smith opens it under the heading of Black flight; Christina M. Greer closes by asking where things go from here.

One group of chapters stays in the city, taking up relations among African American, Black ethnic, and Dominican constituencies in New York, the different shapes ethnic respectability assumes in New York and in Los Angeles, what sanctuary policy has meant for the Black public sphere, and how political incorporation works where no single group holds a majority.

The rest follow Black residents outward — into majority-white suburbs, into multiracial neighbourhoods, and across regions — weighing how time, place, and class shift political attitudes, what sets neighbourhood change in motion, and how its effects settle on African Americans. Contributors include Sharon D. Wright Austin, Niambi M. Carter, and Reuel R. Rogers, among others.