The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century : race, power, and politics of place / [edited by] Robert D. Bullard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bullard, Robert D. (Robert Doyle), 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City dwellers--United States.

City dwellers.

Urban geography.

Black people--Segregation.

United States.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Black people--Segregation--United States.

Black people.

Sociology, Urban--United States.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban geography--United States.

Human geography--United States.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

xi, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

This book brings together key essays that seek to expand our understanding of the role of government in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth potterns; 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 have aided and in some cases subsidized suburban sprawl, job flight, and spatial mismatch; concentrated urban poverty; and heightened racial and economic disparities.

Written mostly by African-American scholars, the chapters in this book describe the challenges facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan regions as they seek to address continuing and emerging patterns of racial polarization in the twenty-first century. The book clearly shows that the United States entered the new millennium as one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations on Earth. Yet amid this prosperity, our nation is faced with some of the same challenges that confronted it at the beginning of the twentieth century, including rising inequality in income, wealth, and opportunity; economic restructuring; immigration pressures and ethnic tension; and a widening gap between "haves" and "have nots." Clearly, race matters. Place also matters. Where we live impacts the quality of our lives and chances for the "good life."

Contents:

Introduction: The significance of race and place / Robert D. Bullard

The 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.

ISBN:

9780742543294

0742543293

9780742543287

0742543285

OCLC:

76828702