White space, black hood : opportunity hoarding and segregation in the age of inequality / Sheryll Cashin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cashin, Sheryll, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development, Urban--United States.

Community development, Urban.

African American neighborhoods.

United States.

African American neighborhoods--United States.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : color maps

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Shows how government created "ghettos" and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality--and issues a call for abolition. The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated "ghetto" myths to justify racist policies that concentrated poverty in the hood and created high-opportunity white spaces. In White Space, Black Hood, Sheryll Cashin traces the history of anti-Black residential caste--boundary maintenance, opportunity hoarding, and stereotype-driven surveillance--and unpacks its current legacy so we can begin the work to dismantle the structures and policies that undermine Black lives. Drawing on nearly 2 decades of research in cities including Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Cleveland, Cashin traces the processes of residential caste as it relates to housing, policing, schools, and transportation. She contends that geography is now central to American caste. Poverty-free havens and poverty-dense hoods would not exist if the state had not designed, constructed, and maintained this physical racial order. Cashin calls for abolition of these state-sanctioned processes. The ultimate goal is to change the lens through which society sees residents of poor Black neighborhoods from presumed thug to presumed citizen, and to transform the relationship of the state with these neighborhoods from punitive to caring. She calls for investment in a new infrastructure of opportunity in poor Black neighborhoods, including richly resourced schools and neighborhood centers, public transit, Peacemaker Fellowships, universal basic incomes, housing choice vouchers for residents, and mandatory inclusive housing elsewhere. Deeply researched and sharply written, White Space, Black Hood is a call to action for repairing what white supremacy still breaks. Includes historical photos, maps, and charts that illuminate the history of residential segregation as an institution and a tactic of racial oppression.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Baltimore: A Study in American Caste p. 9

Chapter 2 White Supremacy Begat "the Ghetto" p. 38

Chapter 3 Segregation Now: The Past Is Not Past p. 58

Chapter 4 Ghetto Myths and the Lies They Told a Nation p. 77

Chapter 5 Opportunity Hoarding: Overinvest and Exclude, Disinvest and Contain p. 105

Chapter 6 More Opportunity Hoarding: Separate and Unequal Schools p. 127

Chapter 7 Neighborhood Effects: What the Hood and America Demand of Descendants p. 145

Chapter 8 Surveillance: Black Lives Matter p. 164

Chapter 9 Abolition and Repair p. 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Cashin, Sheryll. White space, black hood

ISBN:

9780807000373

080700037X

Publisher Number:

40030736489

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.