Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
10 best books like Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It (Mindy Thompson Fullilove): The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Blue Desert, The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide, Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
| Author | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| ISBN | 0812215737 |
DuBois is unquestionably the father of modern Sociology, the more of this I read, the angrier I became that this is not universally recognized. This book is extraordinary. It doesn’t escape all of the faults of its time (this was published in 1899!), but the level of rigorous scholarship and its depth...
| Author | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0393062449 |
The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists,...
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class
| Author | Robin D.G. Kelley |
| ISBN | 0684826399 |
A great book, desperately needed in academia and left circles to articulate the obvious -- not all culture, resistance and politicisation comes out of work or worker's movements. It also emerges from the home, the community, daily life and its myriads of experiences. I also loved not so much the idea...
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
| Author | Anthony Flint |
| ISBN | 1400066743 |
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great...
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
Eclectic thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of "City of Quartz," meditate on future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism.
"Not content with existing offshore tax shelters, multi-millionaires and property developers have aspired to build their own....To...
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
| Author | Robert O. Self |
| ISBN | 0691124868 |
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland...
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
| Author | Charles Bowden |
| ISBN | 0816510814 |
In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged?
In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has...
| Author | Meizhu Lui |
| ISBN | 1595580042 |
For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating...
Since 1998, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chavez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. While Chavez’s radical social-democratic reforms have brought him worldwide acclaim among the poor, he has attracted...
| Author | Daniel Miller |
| ISBN | 0745644031 |
The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses....
Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
| Author | Jordan Flaherty |
| ISBN | 1608461122 |
"This is the most important book I've read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called 'The People's History of the Storm.' Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines."Eve Ensler, playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" and activist and founder of V-Day
"Jordan...
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990
| Author | Manning Marable |
| ISBN | 0878054936 |
The original edition of this book was written during the second year of the Reagan administration. It reflected two perspectives, the thoughts of the social historian, and the commentary of the political theorist and social activist among African-Americans in the post-1975 period. This book elaborates...
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1935554662 |
THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORY
The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing...
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
| Author | Peter D. Norton |
| ISBN | 0262141000 |
Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as "jaywalkers." In Fighting Traffic, Peter...
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality
Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field,...
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty...
| Author | Henri Lefebvre |
| ISBN | 0816641609 |
Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is...
Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space
| Author | Michael Sorkin |
| ISBN | 0374523142 |
America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic...
Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
| Author | David Morley |
| ISBN | 0415088046 |
Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's...
The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing with our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
| Author | Anthony Hiss |
| ISBN | 0679735941 |
Why do some places--the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper--affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative...
| Author | David Harvey |
| ISBN | 0520225783 |
As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting richer; power was concentrating within huge corporations; vast tracts of the earth were being laid waste; three quarters of the earth's population had no control over its destiny and no claim to basic rights. There was nothing new in this....
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
| Author | Tom Lewis |
| ISBN | 0140267719 |
In "Divided Highways," Tom Lewis tells the monumental story of the largest engineered structure ever built: the Interstate Highway System. Here is one of the great untold tales of American enterprise, recounted entirely through the stories of the human beings who thought up, mapped out, poured,...
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
| Author | Mary Pattillo |
| ISBN | 0226649296 |
Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy...
A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
| Author | Vishaan Chakrabarti |
| ISBN | 1935202170 |
In "A Country of Cities," author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and decreased social mobility. If we develop...
