The ghetto : contemporary global issues and controversies / edited by Ray Hutchison and Bruce D. Haynes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-

Hutchison, Ray.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inner cities.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (671 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A cutting-edge collection of original essays from leading scholars examining the contemporary state of the ghetto in all its forms

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure: A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto; 2. De-spatialization and Dilution of the Ghetto: Current Trends in the United States; 3. Toward Knowing the Iconic Ghetto; 4. "You Just Don't Go Down There": Learning to Avoid the Ghetto in San Francisco; 5. In Terms of Harlem; 6. The Spike Lee Effect: Reimagining the Ghetto for Cultural Consumption; 7. Places of Stigma: Ghettos, Barrios, and Banlieues; 8. On the Absence of Ghettos in Latin American Cities

9. Divided Cities: Rethinking the Ghetto in Light of the Brazilian Favela10. Demonstrations at Work: Some Notes from Urban Africa; 11. From Refuge the Ghetto Is Born: Contemporary Figures of Heterotopias; 12. Where Is the Chicago Ghetto?; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-97614-3

0-429-96506-0

0-429-49651-6

1-283-28568-1

9786613285683

0-8133-4504-9

9780429496516

OCLC:

753480373