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Title:

Public space, public policy, and public understanding of race and ethnicity in America : an interdisciplinary approach / Teresa A. Booker, editor.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

The University of Akron Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 387 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Minorities--United States--Social conditions.
Ethnicity--United States.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
Ethnicity.
Minorities--Social conditions.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
United States.
Since 1980

Other Authors:

Booker, Teresa A., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015040342

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Part 1. Case studies. 1. The myth of post-racialism: hegemonic and counterhegemonic stories about race and racism in the United States / Babacar M'Baye -- 2. A Mexicana on wheels: one woman's account of moving about in Los Angeles / Marisabel Almer -- 3. Getting a ride with Ronny, Tom, and David: coming of age onboard the rapid transit district buses in Los Angeles in the 1980s / Marisabel Almer -- 4. The Hasidim of North Brooklyn / Sam Beck -- 5. A white man in the colored Bronx / Ivan Greenberg -- Part 2. Representing and imagining race: language, music, and community. 6. Individual representations of bicultural nature exiled in urban communities / Graciela Perez Boruszko -- 7. Language ideologies and racial formation in Latino Orlando / Simone Pierre Delerme -- 8. A tale of two cities: Go-Go and Punk music as representation of race and Washington, DC / Sayna Maskell -- 9. Blues without Black people: notes on New Orleans, ethnic cleansing, and the white imagination / Joshua Price -- Part 3. Physical and mental well-being. 10. Shopping daze: urban supermarkets and perinatal health / Adwoa K. Boahene and Donald A. Cibula -- 11. You can't survive if you don't eat meat: food in the Asian Indian diaspora / M. Gail Hickey -- 12. Community-based role models: ongoing stories of minority male mentoring / Stephen T. Powers -- Part 4. Housing and Space. 13. Puerto Rican community gardens and casitas of New York City / Jean Martin Caldieron, Ramon Sacristan, and Mate Thitisawat -- 14. Healthcare policy and housing "choice" among low-income HIV positive African American women in Urban North Carolina / Alyson J. O'Daniel -- 15. Now it's more diverse, but it's still ghetto: youth discourses on racial diversity, poverty and the dislocating "ghetto" / Kenzo K. Sung -- 16. You can't go home...again: confinement, displacement, and the legacy of public housing in the lives of low-income Black Americans / John N. Robinson III -- Part 5. Politics and activism. 17. "Sangam means sacred confluence": gender, geography and generation in US Asian Indian association / M. Gail Hickey -- 18. Race and resistance: the whitening of Hyde Park, Illinois, 1880-1920 / Kenya Davis-Hayes -- 19. The political context for understanding the existence of the TRIO program Upward Bound / Teresa A. Booker -- Part 6. Law and justice. 20. All the tigers in the world: race and rehabilitation in an American prison / Robert L. Clark and Ying Yang -- 21. "Oficially murdered" : police brutality, internal colonialism, and Black liberation in 1930s Detroit / Kenneth Jolly.

ISBN:

1937378489
9781937378486

OCLC:

(OCoLC)810109626

LCCN:

2016025855

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)