Title Left Behind In Rosedale : Race Relations And The Collapse Of Community Institutions

Published Boulder : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Race Relations and Urban Neighborhoods; Background and Overview; A Retrospective Overview; 2 The Ghettoization of Rosedale; A Brief History of Rosedale; The Racial Transformation of Rosedale; Suburban Development and Racial Change; 3 Racial Transition and the Loss of Community; The Elderly of Rosedale: A Window to the Past; Grief and the Loss of Community; Commitment and Entrapment; The Transformation of Neighborhood Life and Culture; The Transformation of Community Standards The Loss of the White Middle ClassThe Loss of Community Business; The Intrusion of Government; Summary; 4 Racism and Residential Transition: Old Myths and New Realities; Rosedale and the American Racial Legacy; Residential Integration and the Violation of Racial Etiquette; The Erosion of Mental and Physical Health; Crime, Isolation, and Withdrawal; 5 The Adolescent Menace: Beyond Racial Stereotypes; Crime in Rosedale; The Subjective Side of Criminal Victimization; Cars and Outside Equipment; Household Robberies; Street Crimes; 6 Sexual Violence in Rosedale; The Roots Rapist The Rosedale Rapist7 The Wilding Incidents of 1982; 8 The Underclass of Rosedale: Community Institutions in Crisis; 9 The Struggle to Create New Institutions: The Crisis Deepens, with Elise Bright and Richard Cole; Commercial Redevelopment; The Effort to Save Rosedale's Housing; Gangs and the New Wave of Adolescent Crime; 10 Public Policy, Social Change, and the Fall of Rosedale; Rosedale as a Victim of Social Change; Rosedale as a Victim of Liberal Public Policy; Federal Housing Policy, School Desegregation, and the Fall of Rosedale 11 Race Relations, Social Justice, and the Future of Urban NeighborhoodsA Conflict of Rights; Social Justice and Residential Integration; African American Youth and the Future of Race Relations; Notes; Index Summary "Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings' unique book breathes human life into one of the most serious problems facing the nation's cities: the ghettoization of urban neighborhoods. Transcending demographic and statistical analysis, he vividly and passionately tells the story of ghettoization by explaining what happens to people's lives during the process of racial transition and change. Cummings takes the reader on a distressing historical journey, detailing the progressive decline of one community's culture. Along the way, he explains and explores the futile attempts of its white elderly residents to maintain their traditional way of life. He then moves to an examination of the black youth who victimize the elderly and explains the family and gang context of their actions. Moving full circle some fifteen years later, after the collapse of Rosedale is nearly complete, Cummings documents the similar plight facing the black elderly and details the grinding poverty that has enveloped the entire community. He concludes by evaluating the community's effort to revitalize itself and explains why these efforts failed. Cummings uses the case of Rosedale as a window to explore and critically evaluate the evolution of American urban policy over the past forty years. He concludes that many of our efforts to solve urban problems have actually made them worse. This book should be read by liberals and conservatives alike, neighborhood and community activists, politicians and reformers, urban planners of American cities, and citizens who want to know why government efforts to revitalize urban neighborhoods have accomplished so little."--Provided by publisher Notes Print version record Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 27, 2018) Subject African Americans -- Texas -- Fort Worth -- Social conditions Community development -- Texas -- Fort Worth SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. African Americans -- Social conditions Community development Race relations Social conditions SUBJECT Rosedale (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- Race relations Fort Worth (Tex.) -- Race relations Rosedale (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- Social conditions Fort Worth (Tex.) -- Social conditions Subject Texas -- Fort Worth Texas -- Fort Worth -- Rosedale Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429978883 042997888X 9780429499258 0429499256

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