Urban renewal and resistance : race, space, and the city in the late twentieth to the early twenty-first century / Mary E. Triece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Triece, Mary Eleanor, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--United States.

Urbanization.

United States.

Urban renewal--United States.

Urban renewal.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Sociology, Urban--United States.

Sociology, Urban.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 177 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography, urban studies, and communication to explore how urban spaces, like Detroit and Harlem, are rhetorically structured through neoliberal discourses that mask the racialized nature of housing and health in American cities. The analysis focuses on city planning documents, web sites, and media accounts, and draws on insights from personal interviews in order to pull together a story of city growth and its consequences, while keeping an eye on the ways city residents continue to confront and resist control over their communities through counter-narratives that challenge geographies of injustice. Recommended for scholars of communication studies, journalism, sociology, geography, and political science. Book jacket.

Contents:

Theoretical considerations

Narratives of growth and collective resistance

Rationality vs. demystification

Mapping race

Citizen science: how we come to know what we know

Neoliberalism, urban spaces, and race.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Triece, Mary Eleanor, 1967- author. Urban renewal and resistance

ISBN:

9780739193815

0739193813

OCLC:

951506742