Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs

History, Politics, and Prospects
Herausgeber: Niedt, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Niedt is Academic Director for the National Center for Suburban Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hofstra University.¿ He is co-editor (with Marc Silver) of Forging a New Housing Policy: Opportunity in the Wake of Crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910498
• ISBN-10: 1439910499
• Artikelnr.: 36726805

Autorenporträt

Christopher Niedt is Academic Director for the National Center for Suburban Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hofstra University.  He is co-editor (with Marc Silver) of Forging a New Housing Policy: Opportunity in the Wake of Crisis.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
  Christopher Niedt
PART I   Race, Class, and Exclusion in the Twenty-First Century
2 Twenty-First-Century Suburban Demography: Increasing Diversity Yet
Lingering Exclusion
   Nancy A. Denton and Joseph R. Gibbons
3 The Suburban Geography of Moral Panic: Low-Income Housing and the
Revanchist Fringe
   L. Owen Kirkpatrick and Casey Gallagher
4 Protest on the Astroturf at Downtown Silver Spring: July 4, 2007
   June Williamson
PART II   Revealing Activist Histories
5 “In the Spirit of Equality”: Conflict, Dissonance, and the Potential for
Transformative Educational Change
   Anne Galletta
6 Not Quite Suburban: Progressive Activism in Postwar Chicago
   Robert Gioielli
7 Fringe Politics: Suburban Expansion and the Mexican American Struggle for
Alviso, California
   Aaron Cavin
Part III  Sustaining Social Justice in the Diverse Suburb
8 Maywood, Not Mayberry: Latinos and Suburbia in Los Angeles County
   Manuel Pastor
9 Black, Brown, White, and Green: Race, Land Use, and Environmental
Politics in a Changing Richmond
   Alex Schafran and Lisa M. Feldstein
10 Public Archaeology and Sense of Place in Alexandria, Virginia: An
Exploration of the Changing Significance of Fort Ward Park
    Douglas R. Appler
11 First Suburbs and Nonprofit Housing: How Do Urban CDCs Develop
Affordable Housing in Suburban Communities?
    JoAnna Mitchell-Brown
12 The Future of Fair Housing in a Diverse Suburbia
     john a. powell and Jason Reece
References
Contributors
Index