Suburban Erasure explains how racial inequality adapted in the twentieth century in order to shape American society today. It celebrates the voices of unheralded civil rights leaders, while clearly explaining how suburbs reflect earlier patterns of segregation.
Suburban Erasure explains how racial inequality adapted in the twentieth century in order to shape American society today. It celebrates the voices of unheralded civil rights leaders, while clearly explaining how suburbs reflect earlier patterns of segregation.
Race Brokers examines how housing market professionals-including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers-construct 21st century urban housing markets in ways that contribute to or undermine racial segregation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic an…
"Race Brokers examines how housing market professionals-including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers-construct 21st century urban housing markets in ways that contribute to or undermine racial segregation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic a…
Choosing homes, choosing schools
"A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the expanded use of standardized test scores and the boom in charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood scho…
This work explores the processes of creation, expression and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi, their spatial components of identification like residential segregation and 'community cohesion', the interaction of urban Muslims with urban public spaces and ins…
This work explores the processes of creation, expression and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi, their spatial components of identification like residential segregation and 'community cohesion', the interaction of urban Muslims with urban public spaces and ins…
This work explores the processes of creation, expression and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi, their spatial components of identification like residential segregation and 'community cohesion', the interaction of urban Muslims with urban public spaces and ins…
Based on ethnographical study of Muslim neighbourhoods, this work argues that it is not merely communal discrimination and prejudice that causes formation of segregated Muslim enclaves. Through an intricately weaved argument the text explains that rather than being excluded from…
Muslims constitute the largest minority in India yet, surprisingly, they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, they often fall victim to violence and collective acts of murder. While the quality of Muslim life …
Seit Längerem polarisiert sich die Sozialstruktur in den entwickelten westlichen Ländern, so auch in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund behandelt der Band die wachsende soziale Ungleichheit in den Städten und deren Folgen für die sozialräumliche Struktur der Stadt. Dem stehen k…
Polarisierte Städte: Soziale Ungleichheit als Herausforderung für die …
by Baur, Christine, Frank, Susanne, Gornig, Martin, Güntner, Simon, Hamnett, Chris, Hillmann, Felicitas, Holm, Andreij, Hunger, Bernd, Kazepov, Yuri, Läpple, Dieter, Lebuhn, Henrik, Mollenkopf, John, Preteceille, Edmond, Walther, Uwe-Jens, Wollmann, Hellmut, Wurtzbacher, Jens, Goebel, Jan
Seit Längerem polarisiert sich die Sozialstruktur in den entwickelten westlichen Ländern, so auch in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund behandelt der Band die wachsende soziale Ungleichheit in den Städten und deren Folgen für die sozialräumliche Struktur der Stadt. Dem stehen k…