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Searching for Whitopia : an improbable journey to the heart of white America / Rich Benjamin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Rich (Richard M.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal--United States.
- Migration, Internal.
- United States.
- White people--United States.
- White people.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 354 pages : maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Hyperion, [2009]
- Summary:
- An examination of a recent migration of white Americans to small, predominantly white cities describes the author's visits to "whitopias" throughout the country, where he met white citizens from myriad walks of life, learned the causes of the migration, and familiarized himself with each neighborhood's landscapes and social structures.
- Contents:
- Utah's Dixie
- The Latino time bomb
- Golf as it was meant to be
- Almost heaven
- Privacy is an attribute of good living
- The geography of homogeneity: or, what's race got to do with it?
- Land of the free, home of the braves
- Exurb nation: from the hard right to the marshmallow center
- Potomac 20854
- Conclusion: toward the common good.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-354).
- ISBN:
- 9781401322687 :
- 1401322689
- OCLC:
- 424454780
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