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This collection of original essays takes a new look at race in urban spaces by highlighting the intersection of the physical separation of minority groups and the social processes of their marginalization.
List of contents
Foreword by Nancy A. Denton 1. Racial Exclusion and Spatial Inequality in Metropolitan America by Christopher Mele and Robert M. Adelman Section 1: Racial Exclusion in Policy and Practice 2. Homeownership Expansion, Suburbanization, and Residential Segregation by Greg Mills and Mary J. Fischer 3. Fair Housing and Residential Segregation by Deirdre Oakley 4. The Lifecourse Perspective and Explaining Racial Residential Segregation by Kris Marsh and Kivan Polimis Section 2: Racial exclusion in the production of urban space 5. Contemporary Urban Development and Compounded Exclusion by Christopher Mele 6. City Redevelopment, Black Exclusion, and America’s New Fear Governance by David Wilson Section 3: Visualizing Racial Exclusion in Buffalo, New York Text by William Richardson; Photographs by Sonia M. Strohl Section 4: Race, Exclusion, and Narrative Position 7. Race and Place: The Narratives of Octogenarian Jews in the Bronx by Bradley Gardener 8. Engaging Contradictions: Resisting Racial Exclusion by Leela Viswanathan Section 5: RACIAL AND SPATIAL INEQUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY 9. The Transformation of Exclusion from an Overt to a Covert Process by Jared Strohl 10. Social Inequality and Spatial Exclusion by Robert M. Adelman
About the author
Robert M. Adelman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. An urban sociologist studying social stratification in the U.S., Adelman analyzes patterns, trends, and processes related to residential segregation and neighborhood inequality, immigration, internal migration, and labor force differences by race, ethnicity, and nativity. A former Book Review Co-Editor for
City & Community, Adelman currently serves on the journal's editorial board.
Christopher Mele is Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research interests include the geography of race and exclusion, neoliberalism, and global urbanism. His recent publications appear in
Urban Studies and the
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He is co-editor (with Jan Lin) of the
Urban Sociology Reader, Second Edition.
Summary
This collection of original essays takes a new look at race in urban spaces by highlighting the intersection of the physical separation of minority groups and the social processes of their marginalization.
