Race and the Politics of Deception : : The Making of an American City / / Christopher Mele.

What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales?In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America’s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space. Mele foc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. Race Strategies and the Politics of Urban Development
  • 2. The Racial Divide in the Making of Chester
  • 3. How to Make a Ghetto
  • 4. The Birmingham of the North
  • 5. Five Square Miles of Hell
  • 6. Welcome to the “Post- Racial” Black City
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author