Urban renewal and resistance : race, space, and the city in the late twentieth to the early twenty-first century / Mary E. Triece

Author:: Triece, Mary Eleanor, 1967-
Published:: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
Physical Description:: xxiii, 177 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Theoretical considerations -- Race and displacement in Detroit. Narratives of growth and collective resistance -- Rationality vs. demystification -- Race and health in Harlem. Mapping race -- Citizen science : how we come to know what we know -- Neoliberalism, urban spaces, and race.

Summary:

"Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography, urban studies, and communication to explore how urban spaces, like Detroit and Harlem, are rhetorically structured through neoliberal discourses that mask the racialized nature of housing and health in American cities. The analysis focuses on city planning documents, web sites, media accounts, and draws on insights from personal interviews in order to pull together a story of city growth and its consequences, while keeping an eye on the ways city residents continue to confront and resist control over their communities through counter-narratives that challenge geographies of injustice. Recommended for scholars of communication studies, journalism, sociology, geography, and political science"--

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9780739193815 hardcover alkaline paper
0739193813 hardcover alkaline paper

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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