Cities and race
Subtitle: America's new black ghetto
By: David Wilson.
Series: Questioning cities series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780415358057; 9780415358064; 9780203004104
Subjects: Urban poor -- United States; African Americans -- Economic conditions; African Americans -- Social conditions; Inner cities -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: "Today, in the shadows of gleaming downtown skyscrapers and showy gentrified neighborhoods, conditions in many impoverished black ghettos in America's rust belt have substantially worsened. Leaders and residents in these communities struggle to acquire the resources to upgrade their communities, but contest a formidable obstacle: the accelerated push to make and protect downtown revitalized landscapes of consumption, pleasure, and affluent residency. Cities and Race comprehensively explores this new black ghetto reality."--Jacket.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Glocal black ghetto emergence; title: Introduction; title: The frame; title: An uneasy global trope; title: Perspective and definitions; title: Rise of glocal ghetto; title: The beginning; title: Things get worse, 1965-1980; title: The Reagan 1980s; title: The post 1990 global obsession; title: Formation of the global ghetto; title: The global trope; title: The new spaceless entrepreneur; title: Problem inner cities; title: New heroic mayors as salvationists; title: The result; title: Current ghetto dynamics; title: Glocal ghetto changes; title: Introduction; title: Deepened deprivation; title: The new stigma and marginalization; title: The new ambiguous ghetto-prison connection; title: Recent sustaining - Bush policy effects; title: Introduction; title: Bush urban policy; title: Faith-based interventions; title: Changed workfare; title: No child left behind; title: The future federal role : block grants; title: The active black ghetto; title: Ghetto responses; title: Introduction; title: Resistance to the glocal ghetto; title: The outcome; title: The crisis of the rust belt black ghetto; title: A new uneven development?; title: References.