| Description |
xi, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The significance of race and place / Robert D. Bullard -- The Black metropolis in the era of sprawl / Robert D. Bullard -- Structural racism and spatial Jim Crow / John A. Powell -- Residential apartheid America style / Joe T. Darden -- Dilemma of place and suburbanization of the Black middle class / Sheryll Cashin -- Walling in or walling out : gated communities / Edward J. Blakely and Thomas W. Sanchez -- Spatial mismatch and job sprawl / Michael A. Stoll -- Atlanta : a Black mecca? / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres -- Black New Orleans : before and after Hurricane Katrina / Beverly H. Wright and Robert D. Bullard -- Health disparities in Black Los Angeles / J. Eugene Grigsby III -- Black political power in the new century / David A. Bositis -- Achieving equitable development / Angela Glover Blackwell |
| Summary |
"Written mostly by African-American scholars, the chapters in this book describe the challenges facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan regions as they seek to address continuing and emerging patterns of racial polarization in the twenty-first century. The book clearly shows that the United States entered the new millennium as one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations on Earth. Yet amid this prosperity, our nation is faced with some of the same challenges that confronted it at the beginning of the twentieth century, including rising inequality in income, wealth, and opportunity; economic restructuring; immigration pressures and ethnic tension; and a widening gap between "haves" and "have nots.""--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index |
| Subject |
City dwellers -- United States.
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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Blacks -- Segregation -- United States.
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Sociology, Urban -- United States.
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Urban geography -- United States.
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Human geography -- United States.
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| Author |
Bullard, Robert D. (Robert Doyle), 1946-
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| LC no. |
2006038128 |
| ISBN |
9780742543294 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0742543293 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780742543287 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0742543285 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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