{"product_id":"the-street-a-photographic-field-guide-to-american-inequality-9781978804517","title":"The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of a dangerous ghetto or romanticizing them as traits of a beautiful ruined landscape. \u003ci\u003eThe Street: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Inequality \u003c\/i\u003eprovides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities. Rather than blaming Camden’s residents for the blighted urban landscape, the multidisciplinary array of scholars contributing to this guide reveal the oppressive structures and institutional failures that have led the city to this condition. Tackling topics such as race and law enforcement, gentrification, food deserts, urban aesthetics, credit markets, health care, childcare, and schooling, the contributors challenge conventional thinking about what we should observe when looking at neighborhoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The street scenes in this book provide a literal 'field guide' of inequality evidence, visualizing the codes, metaphors, policies and social exchanges involved in characterizing and contesting inequality. The authors’ arguments are compelling and provocative.\" -- Emily Talen * Professor of Urbanism, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Street\u003c\/i\u003e] includes a number of informative essays about aspects of inequality, including infant mortality, policing, and fast food. Readers will undoubtedly agree with much that is written here and find the endnotes a useful guide to recent scholarship.\" * The Metropole *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit\u003cbr\u003e No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America\u003cbr\u003e No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization \u003cbr\u003e No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care \u003cbr\u003e Part II Symbols and Sentiments\u003cbr\u003e No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape \u003cbr\u003e No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering \u003cbr\u003e No. 6 Dissonance \u003cbr\u003e No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees \u003cbr\u003e Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space\u003cbr\u003e No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story\u003cbr\u003e No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality\u003cbr\u003e No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People’s Persistence\u003cbr\u003e No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food \u003cbr\u003e Part IV Safety and Security\u003cbr\u003e No. 12 Persistence of Black\/White Inequities in Infant Mortality \u003cbr\u003e No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas \u003cbr\u003e No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools \u003cbr\u003e No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043450159447,"sku":"9781978804517","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978804517.jpg?v=1750958274","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-street-a-photographic-field-guide-to-american-inequality-9781978804517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}