The collaborative city
Subtitle: opportunities and struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. cities
By: edited by John Betancur and Douglas Gills.
Contributors: Betancur, John Jairo.; Gills, Doug.
Series: Garland reference library of social science ;; v. 1461.; Contemporary urban affairs ;; v. 8; Garland reference library of social science ;; v. 1461.; Garland reference library of social science.; v. 8.
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Economic conditions; Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions; African Americans -- Politics and government; Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government; Coalition (Social sciences); Community development, Urban -- United States; African Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans; United States -- Ethnic relations
Description: "In The Collaborative City, John J. Betancur and Douglas C. Gills have brought together a diverse group of contributors to discuss the common urban fate of Blacks and Latinos in U.S. cities.

In addition to examining the ways in which policies can be reinvented to effectively respond to economic and political restructuring, the contributors explore experiences of collaboration and contention between Black and Latino communities and develop new approaches for resisting the accumulated effects of racism in an environment of denial.

The result of an ongoing dialogue between the contributors and their communities, The Collaborative City sheds new light on the problems that these two groups face, the ways in which these problems are being addressed, and how these distinct populations can work together to overcome these problems."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-287) and indexes.