Reading City Life

Name: Reading City Life
Price: 6.75 USD
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ISBN: 9780321235169

ISBN-10: 0321235169

ISBN-13: 9780321235169

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard Marback, Patrick Bruch

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Reading City Life explores a variety of issues confronting today's cities in a brief format that is very inexpensive. Approximately 25 readings center on crime, race, citizenship, the suburbs, and neighborhoods in today's American cities. A broad range of authors with a variety of viewpoints are included: Bell Hooks, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Daryl F. Gates, Angela Davis, Robert B. Reich, Cornell West, Bloods/Crips, and many others. A variety of issues are explored including: homelessness, graffiti, violent crime, drug wars, the new black suburbs, civic responsibility, hate radio, and more. Anyone interested in learning about the issues confronting today's cities.

Book details

List price: $30.40
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction



Cities and Neighborhoods


Houselessness and Homelessness



Silent Dancing



Homeplace: A Site of Resistance, bell hooks


A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood



Graffiti: Tunnel Notes of a New Yorker




Cities and Crime


One Violent Crime



Guns Aren't the Only Issue



School Shootings and White Denial



The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke



Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex




Cities and Suburbs


Stressed Out in Suburbia



The New Black Suburbs



Secession of the Successful



Separate and Unequal



Park Slope: Notes on a Middle-Class "Utopia,"




Cities and Race


An American Tale: A Lynching and the Legacies Left Behind



Learning to Talk of Race



Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals



Bloods and Crips Proposal for LA's Facelift, Bloods/Crips Building Democracy from Below



What Really Happened in Cincinnati




Cities and Citizenship


From Guilt to Solidarity: Sweatshops and Political Responsibility



Hate Radio



Civic Responsibility



Speaking for Ourselves



Pathfinders