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Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Series:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1970-2010.
Sociology, Urban > United States > 20th century.
Urban policy > United States > 20th century.
Inner cities > United States > 20th century.
City and town life > United States > 20th century.
Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis > 20e siècle.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis > 20e siècle.
Vie urbaine > États-Unis > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
City and town life
Inner cities
Sociology, Urban
Urban policy
Gewalt
Schwarze
Soziale Situation
Soziale Ungleichheit
Stadt
United States
USA
Schwarze.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: The Death of Shorty
  • Chapter 1. What Is an American City?
  • Chapter 2. The New African American Inequality
  • Chapter 3. Why Don't American Cities Burn Very Often?
  • Chapter 4. From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty Work in Urban America
  • Epilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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