Title The street : a photographic field guide to American inequality / Naa Oyo A. Kwate ; photographs by Camilo J. Vergara

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit -- No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America -- No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization -- No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care -- Part II Symbols and Sentiments -- No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape -- No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering -- No. 6 Dissonance -- No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees -- Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space -- No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story -- No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality -- No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People's Persistence -- No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food -- Part IV Safety and Security -- No. 12 Persistence of Black/ White Inequities in Infant Mortality -- No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas -- No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools -- No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors Summary Vacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. The Street: A Field Guide to Inequality provides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara's intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden's residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods Subject Equality -- New Jersey -- Camden Equality -- New Jersey -- Camden -- Pictorial works Income distribution -- New Jersey -- Camden Income distribution -- New Jersey -- Camden -- Pictorial works Social justice -- New Jersey -- Camden Social justice -- New Jersey -- Camden -- Pictorial works Streets -- New Jersey -- Camden Streets -- New Jersey -- Camden -- Pictorial works SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. Equality Income distribution Social justice Streets New Jersey -- Camden Genre/Form Pictorial works Form Electronic book Author Kwate, Naa Oyo A., editor. Vergara, Camilo José, photographer. ISBN 9781978814226 1978814224

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