Janet L. Abu-Lughod is professor emerita of sociology of Northwestern University and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She is the author of numerous books, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities and From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. In 1999 she received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award of the Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of cities.

Well researched, clearly written, and even more comprehensive than it claims...offers readers a concise study of twentieth-century urban racial violence in the three selected cities and serves as a good starting point for those interested in researching urban racial violence in more depth.

• PART I - CHICAGO'S STRUGGLES TO CONTROL SPACE; PART II - NEW YORK'S STRUGGLES FOR EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE; PART III - LOS ANGELES' FUTILE UPRISINGS

Janet L. Abu-Lughod is professor emerita of sociology of Northwestern University and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She is the author of numerous books, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities and From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. In 1999 she received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award of the Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of cities.

Well researched, clearly written, and even more comprehensive than it claims...offers readers a concise study of twentieth-century urban racial violence in the three selected cities and serves as a good starting point for those interested in researching urban racial violence in more depth.

• PART I - CHICAGO'S STRUGGLES TO CONTROL SPACE; PART II - NEW YORK'S STRUGGLES FOR EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE; PART III - LOS ANGELES' FUTILE UPRISINGS

Janet L. Abu-Lughod is professor emerita of sociology of Northwestern University and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She is the author of numerous books, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities and From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. In 1999 she received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award of the Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of cities.

Well researched, clearly written, and even more comprehensive than it claims...offers readers a concise study of twentieth-century urban racial violence in the three selected cities and serves as a good starting point for those interested in researching urban racial violence in more depth.

• PART I - CHICAGO'S STRUGGLES TO CONTROL SPACE; PART II - NEW YORK'S STRUGGLES FOR EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE; PART III - LOS ANGELES' FUTILE UPRISINGS