ISBN:
9780742571778
,
0742571777
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 282 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Print version Black metropolis in the twenty-first century
DDC:
305.896073
Keywords:
City dwellers United States
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Blacks Segregation
;
United States
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Sociology, Urban United States
;
Urban geography United States
;
Human geography United States
;
City dwellers
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Blacks Segregation
;
Sociology, Urban
;
Urban geography
;
Human geography
;
Urban geography
;
Human geography
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Sociology, Urban
;
City dwellers
;
Blacks Segregation
;
Blacks Segregation
;
United States
;
City dwellers United States
;
Human geography United States
;
Sociology, Urban United States
;
Urban geography United States
;
United States
;
Schwarze
;
USA
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Blacks ; Segregation
;
City dwellers
;
Human geography
;
Sociology, Urban
;
Urban geography
;
Stadtbevölkerung
;
Schwarze
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
USA
;
United States
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether intended or unintended, many government policies (housing, transportation, land use, environmental, economic development, education, etc.) have aided
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The significance of race and place / Robert D. BullardThe Black metropolis in the era of sprawl / Robert D. Bullard -- Structural racism and spatial Jim Crow / John A. Powell -- Residential apartheid America style / Joe T. Darden -- Dilemma of place and suburbanization of the Black middle class / Sheryll Cashin -- Walling in or walling out : gated communities / Edward J. Blakely and Thomas W. Sanchez -- Spatial mismatch and job sprawl / Michael A. Stoll -- Atlanta : a Black mecca? / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres -- Black New Orleans : before and after Hurricane Katrina / Beverly H. Wright and Robert D. Bullard -- Health disparities in Black Los Angeles / J. Eugene Grigsby III -- Black political power in the new century / David A. Bositis -- Achieving equitable development / Angela Glover Blackwell.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index. - Print version record
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