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Why Don't American Cities Burn? (Paperback)
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? (Paperback)
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
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At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally
stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five
dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor,
heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia-one of
seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the
major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a
juror on the murder trial, the story of Manes and Shorty
exemplified the marginalization, social isolation, and indifference
that plague American cities. Introduced by the gripping narrative
of this murder and its circumstances, Why Don't American Cities
Burn? charts the emergence of the urban forms that underlie such
events. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the
rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early
twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black
social structures produced a new African American inequality and
traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass"
to praise of the entrepreneurial poor who take advantage of new
technologies of poverty work to find the beginning of the path to
the middle class. He explores the reasons American cities since the
early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence
while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their
rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of
a culture and political economy that exclude them. The book ends
with a meditation on how the political left and right have come to
believe that urban transformation is inevitably one of failure and
decline abetted by the response of government to
deindustrialization, poverty, and race. How, Katz asks, can we
construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban
history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to
address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we
create a politics of modest hope?
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