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Book SynopsisHow the suburbs can give rise to campaigns for progressive change
Trade Review"[A] comprehensive multidisciplinary view of modern suburbs in America. Christopher Niedt has assembled essays from historians, social psychologists, sociologists, and demographers, in order to investigate how political and social action arises and is organized in suburban locations. From issues of suburban space use to immigrant incorporation, the authors use both historic and contemporary examples to outline how residents unite to address distinct issues faced by suburbanites... This collection of essays will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of urban studies and spatial demography, as many focus on the particular use of space within suburban environments, as well as the distinctions which set suburbs apart from cities as a unique spatial environment." - Contemporary Sociology
Table of Contents1 Introduction
Christopher Niedt
PART I Race, Class, and Exclusion in the Twenty-First Century
2 Twenty-First-Century Suburban Demography: Increasing Diversity Yet Lingering Exclusion
Nancy A. Denton and Joseph R. Gibbons
3 The Suburban Geography of Moral Panic: Low-Income Housing and the Revanchist Fringe
L. Owen Kirkpatrick and Casey Gallagher
4 Protest on the Astroturf at Downtown Silver Spring: July 4, 2007
June Williamson
PART II Revealing Activist Histories
5 “In the Spirit of Equality”: Conflict, Dissonance, and the Potential for Transformative Educational Change
Anne Galletta
6 Not Quite Suburban: Progressive Activism in Postwar Chicago
Robert Gioielli
7 Fringe Politics: Suburban Expansion and the Mexican American Struggle for Alviso, California
Aaron Cavin
Part III Sustaining Social Justice in the Diverse Suburb
8 Maywood, Not Mayberry: Latinos and Suburbia in Los Angeles County
Manuel Pastor
9 Black, Brown, White, and Green: Race, Land Use, and Environmental Politics in a Changing Richmond
Alex Schafran and Lisa M. Feldstein
10 Public Archaeology and Sense of Place in Alexandria, Virginia: An Exploration of the Changing Significance of Fort Ward Park
Douglas R. Appler
11 First Suburbs and Nonprofit Housing: How Do Urban CDCs Develop Affordable Housing in Suburban Communities?
JoAnna Mitchell-Brown
12 The Future of Fair Housing in a Diverse Suburbia
john a. powell and Jason Reece
References
Contributors
Index
