The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century Race, Power, and Politics of Place

by Bullard, Robert D.; Blackwell, Angela Glover; Blakely, Edward J.; Bositis, David A.; Cashin, Sheryll; Darden, Joe T.; Grigsby III, J Eugene; Johnson, Glenn S.; powell, john a.; Stoll, Michael A.; Torres, Angel; Wright, Beverly

• ISBN13: 9780742543294
• ISBN10: 0742543293
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

"Written mostly by African-American scholars, the chapters in this book describe 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 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.""--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Robert D. Bullard is the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Significance of Race and Place	p. 1
The Black Metropolis in the Era of Sprawl	p. 17
Structural Racism and Spatial Jim Crow	p. 41
Residential Apartheid American Style	p. 67
Dilemma of Place and Suburbanization of the Black Middle Class	p. 87
Walling In or Walling Out: Gated Communities	p. 111
Spatial Mismatch and Job Sprawl	p. 127
Atlanta: A Black Mecca?	p. 149
Black New Orleans: Before and After Hurricane Katrina	p. 173
Health Disparities in Black Los Angeles	p. 199
Black Political Power in the New Century	p. 221
Achieving Equitable Development	p. 243
Selected Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 267
About the Editor and Contributors	p. 279
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