There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America - Rilegato

Wilson, William Julius; Taub, Richard P.

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ISBN 10: 0394579364 ISBN 13: 9780394579368

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006

Riassunto

A stunning, long-awaited book that looks at the (still) shocking truths of race, ethnicity, and class in America today.

William Julius Wilson, among our most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, author of When Work Disappears (“Profound and disturbing”―Time; “His magnum opus”―David Remnick, The New Yorker), and Richard P. Taub, chairman of the Department on Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, spent three years with a group of researchers studying four working- and lower-middle-class Chicago neighborhoods: African American, white ethnic, Latino, and one in transition from white ethnic to Latino.

Their focus: to understand how and why certain urban residents react to looming racial, ethnic, or class changes, and what their reactions mean in terms of the stability of their neighborhood.

Using first-person narratives and interviews throughout, There Goes the Neighborhood gives voice to attitudes and realities few Americans are willing to look at. Their findings lay bare a disturbing and incontrovertible truth: that the American dream of racial integration, forty-two years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, still eludes us―and, in fact, may not happen in the foreseeable future.

The authors examine the ways in which forces that contribute to strong neighborhoods work against the idea of integration. They explain why residents of neighborhoods with weak social organizations often choose to move rather than confront unwanted ethnic or racial change. Finally, the authors make clear that the racial and ethnic tensions that have become all but inherent to urban neighborhoods have urgent implications for Americans at every level of society.

Groundbreaking, authoritative, eye-opening―and certain to rekindle, and permanently alter, the discussion of race relations in our time.

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Recensione:

“Improving conditions in America’s urban neighborhoods will require a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics that divide residents along racial, ethnic and class lines.  This compelling and exhaustively researched book makes an invaluable contribution to that endeavor.  The focus is on Chicago, but policymakers and concerned citizens from every city in America will learn a great deal from Wilson and Taub’s work.”

–Former Senator John Edwards

“[There Goes the Neighborhood] does what few books about race relations and class structure do–it offers a dispassionate analysis of the facts, not what we might hope for, but what is. Wilson & Taub bring the best of social science to bear on these issues; their call is for each of us to face up to what these facts mean for our country and for each of as citizens.”

–Former Senator Bill Bradley

“A powerful sociological study of how the steady influx of Latinos are changing urban neighborhood dynamics and the black-white divide.  A major piece of scholarship.  It should be read by all those concerned with immigration and America's urban, multiethnic future.”

–Lawrence D. Bobo, Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor and Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Program in African and African American Studies, Stanford University

“Writing in the tradition of the ‘Chicago School,’ two leading students of the city show how ethnic and racial change is not an inevitable linear process. [The book shows how] white, black, and Latino working class neighborhoods are shaped primarily by the character of local social organization and the larger context of public policy. Absorbing and thought-provoking.”

–Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University and the author of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

“An important and disturbing ethnographic report on Chicago’s ethnic neighborhoods that powerfully speaks to the racial divide in this country. Wilson and Taub and their innovative researchers have put their finger on the deep-seated racial attitudes that continue to divide urban America, illuminating the challenges we still face half a century after the start of the civil rights movement. This work makes important contributions to our understanding of the issues and possible solutions to the elusive goal of racial peace, comity, and mutual respect. It should be widely read.”

–Elijah Anderson, author, Code of the Street

L'autore:

William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is also the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; and The Bridge over the Racial Divide. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Richard P. Taub is the Paul Klapper Professor of Social Sciences and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where he is also professor of sociology and human development. His previous books include Community Capitalism and Paths of Neighborhood Change.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0394579364
• ISBN 13: 9780394579368
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 228