The Integration Debate

Competing Futures For American Cities
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-99459-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the United States, with some of the most heated debates taking place among long-standing advocates of racial equality.

Today, many nonwhites express what has been referred to as "integration exhaustion" as they question the value of integration in today’s world. And many whites exhibit what has been labeled "race fatigue," arguing that we have done enough to reconcile the races. Many policies have been implemented in efforts to open up traditionally restricted neighborhoods, while others have been designed to diversify traditionally poor, often nonwhite, neighborhoods. Still, racial segregation persists, along with the many social costs of such patterns of uneven development.

This book explores both long-standing and emerging controversies over the nation’s ongoing struggles with discrimination and segregation. More urgently, it offers guidance on how these barriers can be overcome to achieve truly balanced and integrated living patterns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartman, Chester

Squires, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. "Integration Exhaustion, Race Fatigue, and the American Dream" 2. "Welcome to the Neighborhood? The Persistence of Discrimination and Segregation" 3. "From Segregation to Integration: How Do We Get There?" 4. "Creating and Protecting Pro-Integration Programs Under the Fair Housing Act" 5. "Achieving Integration Through Private Litigation" 6. "Constitutional and Statutory Mandates for Residential Racial Integration and The Validity of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action to Achieve It" 7. "Housing Mobility: A Civil Right" 8. "Desegregated Schools With Segregated Education" 9. "The Effects of Housing Market Discrimination on Earnings Inequality" 10. "Racial/Ethnic Integration and Child Health Disparities" 11. "Integration, Segregation, and the Racial Wealth Gap" 12. "Two-Tiered Justice: Race, Class, and Crime Policy" 13. "Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment" 14. "The Ghetto Game: Apartheid and the Developer’s Imperative in Post-Industrial American Cities" 15. "The Myth of Concentrated Poverty" 16. "Integration: Solving the Wrong Problem" 17. "The Legacy of Segregation: Smashing Through the Generations"

Über Autor(innen)

Chester Hartman is Director of Research for the Washington, DC-based Poverty & Race Research Action Council. He is also founder and former Chair of The Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban planners. His most recent books include City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco, Between Eminence and Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning, and A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda.

Gregory D. Squires is a Professor of Sociology, and Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. Previously, he worked for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and HUD and served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council. He has published several books on civil rights issues and has written for many academic and general interest publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Housing Policy Debate, and Urban Studies.