UID:
almafu_9959941670502883
Format:
1 online resource (212 p.) :
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17 color images
ISBN:
9781978814240
Content:
Vacant 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. The Street: A Field Guide to Inequality provides readers with the critical tools they need to go beyond such superficial interpretations of urban decay. 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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Introduction --
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Part I State Systems and Predatory Profit --
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No. 1 Racial Patterning of Travel in America --
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No. 2 Dignity in an Era of Financialization --
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No. 3 The Inequitable Erosion of Hospital Care --
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Part II Symbols and Sentiments --
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No. 4 Building Codes: Built Elements of the Housing Landscape --
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No. 5 Symbols of Social Suffering --
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No. 6 Dissonance --
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No. 7 Race, Gentrification, and the Making of Domestic Refugees --
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Part III Social Stories and Stigmatized Space --
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No. 8 Housing Segregation and the Forgotten Latino American Story --
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No. 9 Stolen Narratives and Racialized Structural Inequality --
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No. 10 Disinvestment v. The People’s Persistence --
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No. 11 Racial Patterning of Fast Food --
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Part IV Safety and Security --
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No. 12 Persistence of Black/ White Inequities in Infant Mortality --
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No. 13 Urban Childcare Dilemmas --
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No. 14 Disinvestment in Urban Schools --
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No. 15 Racism in Law Enforcement --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes on Contributors
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978814240
URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978814240
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978814240
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