The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Subtitle: Race, Power, and Politics of Place
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: May 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780742543294
Subjects: Black studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; USA; Cultural Heritage; Public Policy - Cultural Policy; Political Science / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Public Policy - General; African Americans; Blacks; City dwellers; Segregation; Social conditions; United States
Description: "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.