The ghetto : contemporary global issues and controversies / edited by Ray Hutchison and Bruce D. Haynes

Published:: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2012]
Copyright Date:: ©2012
Physical Description:: xliii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Hutchison, Ray and Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-

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Contents:

A Janus-faced institution of ethnoracial closure: a sociological specification of the ghetto / Loïc Wacquant -- De-spatialization and dilution of the ghetto: current trends in the United States / Peter Marcuse -- Toward knowing the iconic ghetto / Elijah Anderson -- "You just don't go down there": learning to avoid the ghetto in San Francisco / Nikki Jones and Christina Jackson -- In terms of Harlem / Bruce D. Haynes -- The Spike Lee effect: reimagining the ghetto for cultural consumption / Sharon Zukin -- Places of stigma: ghettos, barrios, and banlieues / Ernesto Castañeda -- On the absence of ghettos in Latin American cities / Alan Gilbert -- Divided cities: rethinking the ghetto in light of the Brazilian favela / Brasilmar Ferreira Nunes and Leticia Veloso -- Demonstrations at work: some notes from urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone -- From refuge the ghetto is born: contemporary figures of heterotopias / Michel Agier -- Where is the Chicago ghetto? / Ray Hutchison.

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9780813345031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813345030 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813345048 (e-book)
0813345049 (e-book)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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