The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century : race, power, and politics of place

The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century : race, power, and politics of place /

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bullard, Robert D. (Robert Doyle), 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007.
Subjects:
City dwellers > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Black people > Segregation > United States.
Sociology, Urban > United States.
Urban geography > United States.
Human geography > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The significance of race and place / Robert D. Bullard
  • The Black metropolis in the era of sprawl / Robert D. Bullard
  • Structural racism and spatial Jim Crow / John A. Powell
  • Residential apartheid America style / Joe T. Darden
  • Dilemma of place and suburbanization of the Black middle class / Sheryll Cashin
  • Walling in or walling out : gated communities / Edward J. Blakely and Thomas W. Sanchez
  • Spatial mismatch and job sprawl / Michael A. Stoll
  • Atlanta : a Black mecca? / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres
  • Black New Orleans : before and after Hurricane Katrina / Beverly H. Wright and Robert D. Bullard
  • Health disparities in Black Los Angeles / J. Eugene Grigsby III
  • Black political power in the new century / David A. Bositis
  • Achieving equitable development / Angela Glover Blackwell.

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