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  • Philly War Zone

    Growing up in a Racial Battleground

    de Kevin Purcell ...
    In this true story set in the 1970s, youll look through the eyes of then 14-year-old Kevin Purcell, whos now a professional advertising writer, as he watches his perfect childhood neighborhood turn into a racial battleground, where two young kids are stabbed to death, including one of Kevins friends. Read as the author describes what it was like as young kids, black and white, from working-class ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Made in Detroit

    A South of 8 Mile Memoir

    de Paul Clemens ...
    A New York Times Notable BookA powerfully candid memoir about growing up white in Detroit and the conflicted point of view it produced.Raised in Detroit during the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, Paul Clemens saw his family growing steadily isolated from its surroundings: white in a predominately black city, Catholic in an area where churches were closing at a rapid rate, and blue-collar in a steadily ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Family Properties

    Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

    de Beryl Satter ...
    A landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago: "The most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North." —David Garrow, The Washington Post)Named One of the Top Ten Books of 2009 by The New York Times and The Washington PostWinner of the National Jewish Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardThe "pr... ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Cuz

    An American Tragedy

    de Danielle Allen ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf AwarenessA School Library Journal "In the Margins" Recommendation“An elegiac memoir and social jeremiad,” Cuz is “a literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.).First appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle A... ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    de Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Rachel and Her Children

    Homeless Families in America

    de Jonathan Kozol ...
    "Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness."THE BOSTON GLOBEThere is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Why Don't American Cities Burn?

    de Michael B. Katz ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins

    Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots

    de Brenda Stevenson ...
    Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

  • The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities

    Edición de Carlos Teixeira, Wei Li ...
    Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent.Using a ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Race and Place

    How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation

    de David P. Leong ...
    **Geography matters.**We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Because geographic structures and systems create barriers to reconciliation and prevent the flourishing of our communities.Race and Place reveals the profound ways in which these geographic forces and structures sustain the divisions among us. Urban missiologist David Leong, who ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Last Project Standing

    Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago

    de Catherine Fennell ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecurity, isolation, and underemployment that plagued ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Anti-Black City

    Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

    de Jaime Amparo Alves ...
    An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD