Overview

Too often the term ghetto"" is simply applied to any African American community, to the inner city as a whole, or recently to anything that is degraded or unrefined. But what is a ghetto? Does it arise organically from cities, or is it a consequence of social conflict and government policy? Are the banlieues, barrios, favelas, shantytowns, and slums of Europe, South America, and other continents similar to the American ghetto? The Ghetto invites us to re-examine our assumptions by addressing these and other critical questions. Concise, original essays from top scholars around the world clearly describe essential arguments and discoveries, making the current discussion of marginalized urban spaces accessible for all readers and students of urban studies and sociology.

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Author:   Ray Hutchison ,  Bruce D. Haynes ,  Bruce Haynes ,  Ray Hutchison
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Westview Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780813345031

ISBN 10:   0813345030
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   30 August 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction -- A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure: A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto -- De-spacialization and Dilution of the Ghetto: Current Trends in the United States -- Toward Knowing the Iconic Ghetto -- “You Just Don’t Go Down There”: Learning to Avoid the Ghetto in San Francisco -- In Terms of Harlem -- The Spike Lee Effect: Reimagining the Ghetto for Cultural Consumption -- Places of Stigma:Ghettos, Barrios, and Banlieues -- On the Absence of Ghettos in Latin American Cities -- Divided Cities: Rethinking the Ghetto in Light of the Brazilian Favela -- Demonstrations at Work: Some Notes from Urban Africa AbdouMaliq Simone -- From Refuge the Ghetto is Born: Contemporary Figures of Heterotopias -- Where is the Chicago Ghetto?

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Unique in its field, this edited volume reconsiders the Chicago School's 'iconic ghetto' against other marginalized, stigmatized spaces worldwide, such as Paris's banlieues, Rio's favelas, and Kenya's refugee camps...Consisting of 12 generally richly analytical...presentations, this volume should be enticing for senior and graduate-level seminars in sociology or urban studies. Highly recommended. -Choice

Unique in its field, this edited volume reconsiders the Chicago School's 'iconic ghetto' against other marginalized, stigmatized spaces worldwide, such as Paris's banlieues , Rio's favelas , and Kenya's refugee camps...Consisting of 12 generally richly analytical...presentations, this volume should be enticing for senior and graduate-level seminars in sociology or urban studies. Highly recommended. - Choice

Author Information

Ray Hutchison is professor of sociology in the Department of Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Santander Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at the New University of Lisbon. He is series editor of Research in Urban Sociology and senior editor of the forthcoming three-volume encyclopaedia of Urban Studies.Bruce D. Haynes is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. His publications include Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb.

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