Cities and race : America's new black ghetto / David Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, David, 1956-

Series:

Questioning cities series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--United States.

Urban poor.

United States.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Inner cities--United States.

Inner cities.

Urban policy--United States.

Urban policy.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 175 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

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 and discusses and explains: The rise of a new kind of black ghetto termed "the glocal ghetto." The reality of a new third wave of black ghetto marginalizing since 1945 in public policy and popular discourse in America. A new political-economic force that triggers the production of this new ghetto, "the global trope". The ascendant characteristics of this new ghetto: a deepened poverty of its residents, a new denigrating pattern of representation assigned to residents and these communities, and a continued connection of this space to the prison-industrial complex in America. The bolstered role that local politics plays in producing these new ghetto spaces. Cities and Race concludes, in rich and original detail, that America has now spawned a new kind of ghetto that has become more impoverished and more impugned as the now crystallized zone of human discard in "the global era."

Contents:

Introduction

Rise of glocal ghetto

The global trope

Glocal ghetto changes

Recent sustaining : Bush policy effects

Ghetto responses

The crisis of the rust belt black ghetto.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-169) and index.

ISBN:

0415358051

041535806X

0203004108

9780415358057

9780415358064

OCLC:

65205012

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