ISBN:
0415994594
,
0415994608
,
9780415994590
,
9780415994606
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 285 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Integration Debate : Competing Futures for American Cities
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Cities and towns
;
City and town life
;
Social change
;
United States Social conditions 1980-
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States Social conditions 1960-1980
Abstract:
Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the United States, with some of the most heated debates taking place among long-standing advocates of racial equality. Today, many nonwhites express what has been referred to as "integration exhaustion" as they question the value of integration in today's world. And many whites exhibit what has been labeled "race fatigue," arguing that we have done enough to reconcile the races. Many policies have been implemented in efforts to open up traditionally restricted neigh
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; CHAPTER 1 Integration Exhaustion, Race Fatigue, and the American Dream; CHAPTER 2 Welcome to the Neighborhood?: The Persistence of Discrimination and Segregation; CHAPTER 3 From Segregation to Integration: How Do We Get There?; CHAPTER 4 Creating and Protecting Prointegration Programs Under the Fair Housing Act; CHAPTER 5 Achieving Integration Through Private Litigation; CHAPTER 6 Constitutional and Statutory Mandates for Residential Racial Integration and the Validity of Race-Conscious, Affirmative Action to Achieve It
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 7 Housing Mobility: A Civil RightCHAPTER 8 Desegregated Schools With Segregated Education; CHAPTER 9 The Effects of Housing Market Discrimination on Earnings Inequality; CHAPTER 10 Racial/Ethnic Integration and Child Health Disparities; CHAPTER 11 Integration, Segregation, and the Racial Wealth Gap; CHAPTER 12 Two-Tiered Justice: Race, Class, and Crime Policy; CHAPTER 13 Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods, and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 14 The Ghetto Game: Apartheid and the Developer's Imperative in Postindustrial American CitiesCHAPTER 15 The Myth of Concentrated Poverty; CHAPTER 16 Integration: Solving the Wrong Problem; CHAPTER 17 The Legacy of Segregation: Smashing Through the Generations; Contributors; Index; Rights and Permissions
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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