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The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place 1st Edition
Author(s): Robert D. Bullard
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 May 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 294 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742543285
- ISBN-13: 9780742543287
Book Description
Written mostly by African American scholars, the book captures the dynamism of these meetings, describing the challenges facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan regions as they seek to address continuing and emerging patterns of racial polarization in the twenty-first century. The book clearly shows that the United States entered the new millennium as one of the wealthiest and the most powerful nations on earth. Yet amid this prosperity, our nation is faced with some of the same challenges that confronted it at the beginning of the twentieth century, including rising inequality in income, wealth, and opportunity; economic restructuring; immigration pressures and ethnic tension; and a widening gap between haves and have-nots. Clearly, race matters. Place also matters. Where we live impacts the quality of our lives and chances for the good life.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Robert Bullard has assembled a rich and highly readable collection of scholarly work on the role of race in assigning where and determining how Americans live. The contributors provide trenchant analyses not only of the way limited housing access is created through loan barriers, but of the consequential vulnerability of those thereby exposed to environmental pollution. Equally importantly, the authors present useful ideas on what can and should be done to correct these very serious problems…. — Troy Duster, Emeritus Chancellor”s Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Bullard has assembled a rich and highly readable collection of scholarly work on the role of race in assigning where and determining how Americans live. The contributors provide trenchant analyses not only of the way limited housing access is created through loan barriers, but of the consequential vulnerability of those thereby exposed to environmental pollution. Equally importantly, the authors present useful ideas on what can and should be done to correct these very serious problems. — Troy Duster, Emeritus Chancellor”s Professor, University of California, Berkeley
