Cities and Race

Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Cities and Race details how fluid racial characterizations change in response to political economic pressures.David Wilson's commitment to making scholarship useful for undoing the cruelties of anti-black racism in general, and the new black ghettos in particular, is without question.reviewd by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California, USA At his best, Wilson lays bare the inner working of this discourse through the scalar common sense it creates. Bradley Gardener Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences CUNY Graduate Centre

• Part I: Glocal Black Ghetto Emergence1. Introduction.The Frame.An Uneasy Global Trope.Perspective and Definitions2. Rise of Glocal Ghetto.The Beginning.Things Get Worse, 1965–1980.The Reagan 1980s.The Post 1990 Global Obsession.Formation of the Global Ghetto3. The Global Trope.Introduction.The New Spaceless Entrepreneur.Problem Inner Cities.New Heroic Mayors As Salvationists.The ResultPart II: Current Ghetto Dynamics4. Glocal Ghetto Changes.Introduction.Deepened Deprivation.The New Stigma and Marginalization.The New Ambiguous Ghetto-Prison Connection5. The Current Federal Role – Bush Policy Effects.Introduction.Bush Urban Policy.Faith-Based Interventions.Changed Workfare.No Child Left Behind.The Future Federal Role – Block GrantsPart III: The Active Black Ghetto6. Ghetto Responses.Introduction.Resistance to the Glocal Ghetto.The Outcome7. The Crisis of the Black Ghetto.Introduction.A New Uneven Development