Marcus Hunter’s letter to the editor of the New York Times (“Republican attitudes toward urban America,” The Opinion Pages, Oct. 17), responds to a statement about the Black middle class residing in cities in the postwar and post-civil-rights era, published in Kevin Baker’s article, “Republicans to Cities: Drop Dead” (Sunday Review, Oct. 7).
Professor Hunter is an assistant professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. See Professor Hunter’s faculty page:
Thursday, October 18, 2012