Uprooting Urban America

Horace R. Hall is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University. He received his PhD in curriculum studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago.Cynthia Cole Robinson is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Teacher Preparation at Purdue University Calumet. She received her PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Illinois at Chicago.Amor Kohli is Associate Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University. He received his PhD in English from Tufts University.

«Uprooting Urban America is an original and outstanding contribution to debates on gentrification via its specific analytic focus on housing, healthcare services, education and community organizing. At a time when human needs are being aggressively appropriated and financialized, the contributions to this volume – carefully argued and expertly edited – not only offer elaborate analyses of the implications, but can also assist struggles to protect the legacies of the welfare state against predatory attacks by this generation’s vulture capitalists.» (Tom Slater, Reader in Urban Geography, University of Edinburgh)«Uprooting Urban America explores the interrelationship of gentrification and neoliberal policies in healthcare, housing and education in the colonization of urban space, powerfully demonstrating their constitutive role in the production of special inequality, dispossession and injustice – and possibilities of resistance.» (Pauline Lipman, Author of The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race and the Right to the City)«2014 is the fiftieth anniversary of the coining of the term ‘gentrification’ by the British sociologist Ruth Glass. On its anniversary, this book lays bare the visceral impact of this process on urban America, not just on housing, but on education, public health and much more. A wonderful addition to the gentrification literature, the book underlines the wholesale gentrification of American society and the socially unjust uprooting and displacement of the poor. But it does much more too – in the face of a post-political American landscape, this book discusses interventions and resistances, and in so doing it gives much-needed hope and ideas for how Americans can fight this pervasive agenda.» (Loretta Lees, University of Leicester)

• Contents: William H. Watkins: Foreword: On Politics, Property and Wealth – Horace R. Hall: Introduction: Understanding Gentrification and the Recolonization of U.S. Urban Space – Loïc Wacquant: Relocating Gentrification: The Working Class, Science and the State in Recent Urban Research – Adrienne Holloway: Hurting or Helping: Gentrification and African American Neighborhoods in Chicago – Emily Rosenman/Samuel Walker/Elvin Wyly: The Shrinkage Machine: Race, Class and the Renewal of Urban Capital – Daniel Faber/Shelley McDonough Kimelberg: Sustainable Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification: The Paradox Confronting the U.S. Environmental Justice Movement – Antwi Akom/Aekta Shah/Aaron Nakai: Visualizing Change: Using Technology and Participatory Research to Engage Youth in Urban Planning and Health Promotion – Stuart Greene/Kevin Burke/Maria McKenna: Reframing Spatial Inequality: Youth, Photography and a Changing Urban Landscape – Donald A. Barr: Training Physicians for the Demographics of the 21st Century: The Importance of Diversity and Cultural Competency – Russell Lopez: Gentrification and Health: Patterns of Environmental Risk – T. Henry Akintobi/Ronald Braithwaite/Anika Dodds: Residential Segregation: Trends and Implications for Conducting Effective Community-Based Research to Address Ethnic Health Disparities – William Ayers: Topsy-Turvy: Education at the End of Empire – Henry A. Giroux: Cultural Studies in Dark Times: Public Pedagogy and the Challenge of Neoliberalism – Sue Books: Disparity, Austerity and Public Schooling in the United States: Why Quentin Can’t Read – Katherine Hankins/Elizabeth Egan Henry: School Activism and the Production of Urban Space in Atlanta, Georgia – Miranda Martinez: «History Still Matters»: Leveraging Historicity in Struggles to Control Space – Judith N. DeSena: Gentrification as Class Politics – James Jennings: Foreclosure Crisis and the Role of Community Organizing in a U.S. Latino Community – Diane Grams: Community Parading and Symbolic Expression in Post-Katrina New Orleans – Mindy Thompson Fullilove: Afterword: Things Have Fallen Apart but We Are Planning to Stay.