Robert Adelman - Race, Space, and Exclusion

First published 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
[Essays. Selections]

Race, space, and exclusion: segregation and beyond in metropolitan

America / edited by Robert Adelman, Christopher Mele. 1 Edition.

pages cm. (The metropolis and modern life)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Ethnic neighborhoods United States. 2. Race discrimination

United States. 3. Metropolitan areas United States. I. Adelman,

Robert M., editor of compilation. II. Mele, Christopher, editor of
compilation.

HT221.R33 2014
307.362089 dc23
2014024682

ISBN: 978-1-138-77930-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-77932-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-77138-0 (ebk)

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Nancy A. Denton

Christopher Mele and Robert M. Adelman

An overview of spatial forms of racial inequality rooted in past and current discrimination, from residential segregation to newer, often subtler forms of exclusion.

Greg Mills And Mary J. Fischer

An examination of the importance of homeownership in understanding racial and ethnic inequality and segregation and the implications of the foreclosure crisis for residential segregation in the future.

Deirdre Oakley

A discussion of the historical evolution of fair housing legislation since the Housing Act of 1949 that emphasizes why fair housing has had an impact on persistent residential segregation.

Kris Marsh and Kivan Polimis

An exploration of the ways in which residential decisions and contexts are shaped by personal histories, with residential outcomes unfolding over the life course, and earlier residential experiences shaping later neighborhood outcomes.

Christopher Mele

An examination of how racial discrimination is built into contemporary urban redevelopment policies and practices in ways that exacerbate longstanding patterns of racial exclusion.

David Wilson

A discussion of how urban governance based on fear is built into redevelopment best practices to produce a newer iteration of raceclass segregation and exclusion.

Text by William Jamal Richardson; Photographs by Sonia M. Strohl

A study of racial exclusion along Main Street in Buffalo, New York, through photographs and text.

Bradley Gardener

An exploration of how stories about neighborhood change in the Bronx as recounted by elderly Jews reveals insights about the intersection of race, identity, and geography.

Leela Viswanathan

A consideration of the link among advocacy, urban planning, and academic research in order to examine how subjects decide to form collectives to address their social and economic marginalization and resist racial exclusion and the experiences of racialization.

Jared Strohl

An integration of the chapters focusing on how exclusion has changed from an overt and explicit process in the pre-civil rights era into a covert and largely invisible process today.

Robert M. Adelman

A discussion of the importance of racial and spatial exclusion by introducing other forms of exclusion that allow for a fuller understanding of social inequality in the twenty-first century.

Race, Space, and Exclusion takes as its starting point that racial exclusion encompasses both the physical separation of minority groups, especially blacks, and the social processes of their marginalization. This book addresses persistent and more recent innovative spatial forms of racial exclusion in contemporary metropolises. The purpose of this volume is to examine the connections between longstanding spatial mechanisms of racial exclusion and indirect, elusive spatial practices that have emerged in recent decades. The study of spatial forms of racial exclusion cuts across subareas within sociology and geography, political science, planning, history, and other disciplines as well. The types of theoretical perspectives and research methods used to study exclusion within these disciplines are many and varied. The goal of the book is not simply to catalog theoretical assumptions, approaches, or methods used to understand racial exclusion but to systematically address areas in which varied forms of research overlap, feed into each other, differ, or are similar in their analyses and most importantly in their findings on the contemporary consequences for urban minorities. This volume provides a dynamic and productive dialogue among scholars who work on the topic of racial exclusion and segregation but from different perspectives, theoretical and methodological angles, and social science disciplines. To facilitate the twin goals of pedagogical and scholarly contribution, the editors have organized the book into five sections around specific themes and introduced each with an overview by the editors. In addition, each section will have a collection of web links and teaching tips available on the books website, www.routledge.com/cw/adelman, which expand upon the books coverage and spark classroom engagement.