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Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America.

This interdisciplinary anthology contains a collection of materials, including personal accounts, analyses of historical and/or current events, and legal rulings told through the lens of various racial or ethnic groups living in the United States. Included are discussions of housing and neighborhood...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Booker, Theresa A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Akron, OH : University Of Akron Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover ; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Case Studies; Chapter 1: The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and Counterhegemonic Stories about Race and Racism in the United States; Chapter 2: A Mexicana on Wheels: One Woman's Account of Moving About in Los Angeles; Chapter 3: Getting a Ride with Ronny, Tom, and David: Coming of Age Onboard the Rapid Transit District Buses in Los Angeles in the 1980s; Chapter 4: The Hasidim of North Brooklyn; Chapter 5: A White Man in the Colored Bronx; Part 2: Representing and Imagining Race: Language, Music, and Community.
  • Chapter 6: Individual Representations of Bicultural Nature Exiled in Urban CommunitiesChapter 7: Language Ideologies and Racial Formation in Latino Orlando; Chapter 8: A Tale of Two Cities: Go-Go and Punk Music as Representation of Race and Washington, DC; Chapter 9: Blues without Black People: Notes on New Orleans, Ethnic Cleansing, and the White Imagination; Part 3: Physical and Mental Well-Being; Chapter 10: Shopping Daze: Urban Supermarkets and Perinatal Health; Chapter 11: You Can't Survive If You Don't Eat Meat: Food in the Asian Indian Diaspora.
  • Chapter 12: Community-Based Role Models: Ongoing Stories of Minority Male MentoringPart 4: Housing and Space; Chapter 13: Puerto Rican Community Gardens and Casitas of New York City; Chapter 14: Healthcare Policy and Housing "Choice" Among Low-Income HIV Positive African American Women in Urban North Carolina; Chapter 15: Now It's More Diverse, But It's Still Ghetto: Youth Discourses on Racial Diversity, Poverty, and the Dislocating "Ghetto"; Chapter 16: You Can't Go Home & gain: Confinement, Displacement, and the Legacy of Public Housing in the Lives of Low-Income Black Americans.
  • Part 5: Politics and ActivismChapter 17: "Sangam Means Sacred Confluence": Gender, Geography, and Generation in a US Asian Indian Association; Chapter 18: Race and Resistance: The Whitening of Hyde Park, Illinois, 1880-1920; Chapter 19: The Political Context for Understanding the Existence of the TRIO Program Upward Bound; Part 6: Law and Justice; Chapter 20: All the Tigers in the World: Race and Rehabilitation in an American Prison; Chapter 21: "Officially Murdered!": Police Brutality, Internal Colonialism, and Black Liberation in 1930s Detroit; Contributors.