city residential integration is frequently fleeting—a short photograph that belies a fancy strategy of racial turnover in lots of U.S. towns. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside of a local that has shifted quickly and dramatically in race composition over the past 20 years. The publication offers 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 via documenting a two-stage means 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 level of racial swap: black flight. She finds what occurs after white flight is whole: “Pioneer” blacks flee to different neighborhoods otherwise comply with their new segregated residential atmosphere via dealing with the lack of relationships with their longer-term white associates, indicators of group decline, and conflicts with the incoming moment wave of black acquaintances. Readers will locate a number of astounding and compelling twists to the white flight tale regarding optimistic kin among aged stayers and the striving pioneers, clash between black citizens, and changes in cultural understandings of what constitutes crime and disorder.