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  • Liberty Road

    Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism

    de Gregory Smithsimon ...
    A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persistsHalf of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class.Focusing on Liberty Road, a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • September 12

    Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero

    de Gregory Smithsimon ...
    The collapse of the World Trade Center shattered windows across the street in Battery Park City, throwing the neighborhood into darkness and smothering homes in debris. Residents fled. In the months and years after they returned, they worked to restore their community. Until September 11, Battery Park City had been a secluded, wealthy enclave just west Wall Street, one with all the opulence of the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Cause: . . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect

    de Gregory Smithsimon ...
    Narrado por P.J. Ochlan ...

    Completo

    10 hora 22 minutos

    When we try to understand our world, we ask "why?" a specific event occurred. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory Smithsimon brings us a much sharper understanding of cause and effect, and shows how we can use it to approach some of our most daunting collective problems.Smithsimon begins by explaining the misguided cause and effect explanations ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The World in Brooklyn

    Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City

    de Noel S. Anderson, Alessandro Busà, Evrick Brown, Jennifer Candipan, Phyllis Conn, Roberta Cordeau, William DiFazio, Shanna Farrell, Jerome Krase, Steve Lang, Tammy L. Lewis, Sara Martucci, Lorna Mason, Ed Morlock, Christina Pisano, Bengisu Peker, Mark Peterson, Nicole Riorda, Danielle Shallow, Gregory Smithsimon, Mark Treskon, Kenneth A. Gould ...
    The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to them. The idea for this volume developed as the editors discovered a group of scholars from ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Beach Beneath the Streets

    Contesting New York City's Public Spaces

    de Benjamin Heim Shepard, Gregory Smithsimon ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City-queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists-as they transform streets, piers, and ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • 50 Dark Destinations

    Crime and Contemporary Tourism

    de Alice Storey, Angus Nurse, Anna Sergi, Anthony Lloyd, Ben Colliver, Craig Ancrum, Dan Rusu, David Wilson, Donna Yates, Duncan John Frankis, Eamonn Carrabine, Emiline Smith, Emma Winlow, Eveleigh Buck-Matthews, Gary Potter, Grace Gallacher, Hannah London, Ian R. Cook, Jane Richards, Jack Denham, Jardar Nuland Østbø, Jenna Page, Joe Garrihy, John Bahadur Lamb, Katie Lowe, Keith Hayward, Kevin Hoffin, Kyla Bavin, Laura Hammond, Lucas Danos, Luke Telford, Max Hart, Melindy Brown, Michael Rowe, Natasha Pope, Neil Chakraborti, Nicholas Gibbs, Oliver Smith, Orlando Woods, Patrick Berry, Peter Joyce, Robin West, Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Sarah Jones, Selina Patel Nascimento, Simon Winlow, Sophie Gregory, Steve Wadley, Tammy Ayres, Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Thomas Raymen, Travis Linnemann, Wendy Laverick ...
    From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Te Kōrero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning

    de Eileen Mueller, A. J. Ponder, Kevin Berry, Daniel Stride, Kevin G. Maclean, Robinne Weiss, Dan Rabarts, Sally McLennan, Piper Mejia, Paul Mannering, Jane Percival, Mouse Diver-Dudfield, I. K. Paterson-Harkness, Simon Petrie, Edwina Harvey, Darian Smith, Grant Stone, Gregory Dally, Mark English, Mike Reeves-McMillan, Sean Monaghan, Matt Cowens, Debbie Cowens, Alan Baxter ...
    Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Farspace 2

    de Edwin Rydberg, Ben Shirar, L. D. Dailey, Calie Voorhis, Adriana Noire, Kate Sender, Ben A. Bell, Max Griffin, David Snyder, Simon Logan, Susan Joyner-Stumpf, David McGilveray, Lane Diamond, Timothy Masters, J. David Bell, Gregory Marshall Smith, Steven Lugo, Robert Holt, K. S. Riggin, Eric Paul Fretheim ...
    Farspace 2 is, at times, darker, more cautionary and less care-free than its predecessor. It is an exploration of the dangers of the future that we will be challenged with, should our species be so fortunate to reach that distant land. There are stories about control—by entities that want to harm or protect us. Stories about exploration—not the happy, "everything is wonderful out there and all ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Divided City

    Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America

    de Alan Mallach ...
    Who really benefits from urban revival? Cities, from trendy coastal areas to the nation’s heartland, are seeing levels of growth beyond the wildest visions of only a few decades ago. But vast areas in the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see little or no new hope or opportunity. Even as cities revive, they are becoming more unequal and more segregated. What does this ... Leer más

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  • The Sum of Us

    What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    de Heather McGhee ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington ... Leer más

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  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    de Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Leer más

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  • White Riot

    The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

    de Henry Tsang ...
    Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver exploresthe conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city’s Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian ... Leer más

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