Suchergebnisse

Preliminary material /John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring -- Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism: An Introduction /John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring -- Critical Considerations and New Challenges in Black-Latino Relations /John J. Betancur -- Juntos Pero No Revueltos: Race, Citizenship, and the Conundrums of Latinidad /Tomas Almaguer -- Public Housing Redevelopment and the Displacement of African Americans /Edward G. Goetz -- Problems of Racial Justice in Portland, 1968–2010: Revisiting the City's "Kerner Report" /Karen J. Gibson -- After the Storm: Race and Victims' Reactions to the Hurricane Katrina Aftermath /Hayward Derrick Horton , Melvin Thomas and Cedric Herring -- Race, Class, and the Restructuring of Urban Community Development /Douglas C. Gills -- Fairness on the Job: Skin Tone, the Beauty Myth, and the Treatment of African American Women at Work /N. Michelle Hughes and Cedric Herring -- Training Black Media Makers after Kerner: The Black Journal Workshop /Devorah Heitner -- "Illegals Under Fire": Analyzing U.S. News Frames of Latina/o Immigration and Immigration Rights (1997–2007) /Isabel Molina-Guzmán -- Muslims in the Global City: Racism, Islamophobia, and Multiracial Organizing in Chicago /Junaid Rana -- New Configurations of Racism after 9/11: Gender and Race in the Context of the Anti-Immigrant City /Elizabeth L. Sweet -- Gang Members, Juvenile Delinquents, and Direct Democracy /Lisa Marie Cacho -- Racial Disadvantages and Incarceration: Sources of Wage Inequality among African American, Latino, and White Men /Kecia R. Johnson and Jacqueline Johnson -- Casualties of War: The War on Drugs, Prisoner Re-entry and the Spread of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C in Chicago's Communities /Cedric Herring -- Marching in March: Early Participation in Chicago's Immigrant Mobilization /Angela Mascarenas and Cedric Herring -- From Political Novice to Veteran: Youth Participation in the Immigrant Mobilization /Loren Henderson -- Race, Poverty, and Disability: A Social Justice Dilemma /Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar , Fabricio Balcazar , Tina Ritzler-Taylor , Asma Ali and Rooshey Hasnain -- Conclusion: Racism and Neoracism: Contributions of This Book /John J. Betancur -- Index of Names /John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring -- Subject Index /John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring.

"Based on historical case studies in Chicago, John J. Betancur and Janet L. Smith focus both the theoretical and practical explanations for why neighborhoods change today. As the authors show, a diverse collection of people including urban policy experts, elected officials, investors, resident leaders, institutions, community-based organizations, and many others compete to control how neighborhoods change and are characterized. Betancur and Smith argue that neighborhoods have become sites of consumption and spaces to be consumed. Discourse is used to add and subtract value from them. The romanticized image of "the neighborhood" exaggerates or obscures race and class struggles while celebrating diversity and income mixing. Scholars and policy makers must reexamine what sustains this image and the power effects produced in order to explain and govern urban space more equitably"--