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Jessica Trounstine - Segregation by Design, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Segregation by Design

Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities

Av Jessica Trounstine

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Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services - from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-11-15
  • Mått: 158 x 235 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 520 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 282
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108429955
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Jessica Trounstine is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Merced. She is the author of Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers (2008), which won the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Prize for Best Book on Urban Politics. Trounstine served as President of the Urban and Local Politics Section of APSA from 2014-2015. Her research examines subnational politics and the process and quality of representation.

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'This is a terrific and timely book. Trounstine analyzes one of the pillars of structural racism and how it was built cumulatively to become something that on the surface looks like the workings of a color-free market. While big outcomes seldom derive solely from a single factor, Trounstine does a superb job of placing the political dominance of white homeownership in a long and consequential directory.' Clarence Stone, Research Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, The George Washington University

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