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 focuses on Chester, Pennsylvania-a small city comprised of primarily low-income, black residents, roughly twenty miles south of Philadelphia. Like many cities throughout the United States, Chester is experiencing post-industrial decline. A development plan touted as a way to "save" the city, proposes to turn one section into a desirable waterfront destination, while leaving the rest of the struggling residents in fractured communities. Dividing the city into spaces of tourism and consumption versus the everyday spaces of low-income residents, Mele argues, segregates the community by creating a racialized divide. While these development plans are described as socially inclusive and economically revitalizing, Mele asserts that political leaders and real estate developers intentionally exclude certain types of people-most often, low-income people of color. Race and the Politics of Deception provides a revealing look at how our ever-changing landscape is being strategically divided along lines of class and race.

This collection of original essays takes a new look at race in urban spaces by highlighting the intersection of the physical separation of minority groups and the social processes of their marginalization. Race, Space, and Exclusion provides a dynamic and productive dialogue among scholars of racial exclusion and segregation from different perspectives, theoretical and methodological angles, and social science disciplines. This text is ideal for upper-level undergraduate or lower-level graduate courses on housing policy, urban studies, inequalities, and planning courses.

As the issue of parole and the concept of 'the community and the offender' continue to be of growing interest, Locked Out should be of interest to criminologists, policy-makers and advocates of safe communities. It should also find a welcome audience with scholars in criminology, political science, sociology, law and race and ethnicity. The book will be useful for a number of criminology courses, notably Community-Based Corrections. The book should make a valuable contribution and has the possibility of informing not only the academic and legal community, but educating the general public of this complex policy area.

Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and housing opportunities. This much-needed work contains pieces by scholars in law, criminology, and sociology, including: Scott Christianson, Michael Lichter, and Daniel Kanstroom.

This collection of original essays takes a new look at race in urban spaces by highlighting the intersection of the physical separation of minority groups and the social processes of their marginalization. Race, Space, and Exclusion provides a dynamic and productive dialogue among scholars of racial exclusion and segregation from different perspectives, theoretical and methodological angles, and social science disciplines. This text is ideal for upper-level undergraduate or lower-level graduate courses on housing policy, urban studies, inequalities, and planning courses.

The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and transnational social relations and the regulation of urban space.

Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this Reader includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, DuBois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey. The 2nd edition illuminates more recent urban issues such as sprawl, sustainability, immigration and urban protest. Selections are predominantly sociological, but some readings cross disciplinary boundaries.

Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, this book brings together important but, till now, widely dispersed writings. Editorial commentaries precede each entry; introducing the text, demonstrating its significance, and outlining the issues surrounding its topic, whilst the associated bibliography enables deeper investigations.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Urbanization and Community 1. Community and Society Ferdinand Tonnies 2. The Metropolis and Mental Life Georg Simmel 3. Urbanism as a Way of Life Louis Wirth 4. Theories of Urbanism Claude S. Fischer 5. The Uses of City Neighborhoods Jane Jacobs 6. Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities Barry Wellman 7. Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Robert Putnam Part 2: Understanding Urban Growth in the Capitalist City 8. Human Ecology Robert Park 9. The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project Ernest Burgess 10. The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis David Harvey 11. The City as a Growth Machine John Logan and Harvey Molotch 12. Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City Gregory Squires 13. Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate Michael Dear 14. Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore 15. Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom 16. "Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot Be Sustainable—And Why They Are A Key to Sustainability" William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel Part 3: Racial and Social Inequality 17. The Philadelphia Negro W.E.B. DuBois 18. The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City Loic Wacquant and William Julius Wilson 19. Segregation and the Making of the Underclass Douglas S. Massey and Nancy Denton 20. The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning 21. Spatial Disparities in the Expansion of the Chinese Ethnoburb of Los Angeles Jan Lin and Paul Robinson 22. Men Without Property: The Tramp’s Classification and Use of Urban Space James S. Duncan 23. Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster James R. Elliott and Jeremy Pais Part 4: Gender and Sexuality 24. City Spatial Structure, Women’s Household Work, and National Urban Policy Ann Markusen 25. Race,’ Space and Power: The Survival Strategies of Working Poor Women Melissa Gilbert 26. Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner 27. Freeing South Africa: The ‘Modernization’ of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto Donald L. Donham 28. Whose Place is this Space? Life in the Street Prostitution Area of Helsinki, Finland Sirpa Tani Part 5: Globalization and Transnationality 29. The World City Hypothesis John Friedmann 30. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims Saskia Sassen 31. Globalizing Singapore: Debating Transnational Flows in the City Brenda S. A. Yeoh and T. C. Chang 32. City Life: West African Communities in New York Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha 33. Social Remittances: Migration Driven Local-level Forms of Cultural Diffusion Peggy Levitt Part 6: Culture and the City 34. Whose Culture? Whose City? Sharon Zukin 35. Cities and the Creative Class Richard Florida 36. Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar Edward LiPuma and Thomas Koelble 37. Staying Vietnamese: Community and Place in Orange County and Boston Karin Aguilar-San Juan Part 7: Regulation and Rights in Urban Space 38. Spatial Governmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through Law S. E. Merry 39. The Erosion of Public Space and the Public Realm Setha Low 40. Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation Teresa P. Caldeira 41. Casinos, Prisons, Incinerators and Other Fragments of Neoliberal Urban Development Christopher Mele 42. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship James Holston 43. The Right to the City David Harvey

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The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and transnational social relations and the regulation of urban space.

Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this Reader includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, DuBois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey. The 2nd edition illuminates more recent urban issues such as sprawl, sustainability, immigration and urban protest. Selections are predominantly sociological, but some readings cross disciplinary boundaries.

Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, this book brings together important but, till now, widely dispersed writings. Editorial commentaries precede each entry; introducing the text, demonstrating its significance, and outlining the issues surrounding its topic, whilst the associated bibliography enables deeper investigations.

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 focuses on Chester, Pennsylvania-a small city comprised of primarily low-income, black residents, roughly twenty miles south of Philadelphia. Like many cities throughout the United States, Chester is experiencing post-industrial decline. A development plan touted as a way to "save" the city, proposes to turn one section into a desirable waterfront destination, while leaving the rest of the struggling residents in fractured communities. Dividing the city into spaces of tourism and consumption versus the everyday spaces of low-income residents, Mele argues, segregates the community by creating a racialized divide. While these development plans are described as socially inclusive and economically revitalizing, Mele asserts that political leaders and real estate developers intentionally exclude certain types of people-most often, low-income people of color. Race and the Politics of Deception provides a revealing look at how our ever-changing landscape is being strategically divided along lines of class and race.