9780190066581-019006658X-Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods

Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods

ISBN-13: 9780190066581
ISBN-10: 019006658X
Author: Jan Doering
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780190066581
ISBN-10: 019006658X
Author: Jan Doering
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 256 pages

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Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods (ISBN-13: 9780190066581 and ISBN-10: 019006658X), written by authors Jan Doering, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban Planning & Development (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban Planning & Development books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods. How do residents, activists, and politicians navigate the thorny politics of race as they fight crime or resist gentrification? And do conflicts over competing visions of neighborhood change necessarily divide activists into racially homogeneous camps, or can they produce more complex alliances and divisions? In Us versus Them, Jan Doering answers these questions through an in-depth study of two Chicago neighborhoods. Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork, Doering examines how activists and community leaders clashed and collaborated as they launched new initiatives, built coalitions, appeased critics, and discredited opponents. At the heart of these political maneuvers, he uncovers a ceaseless battle over racial meanings that unfolded as residents strove to make local initiatives and urban change appear racially benign or malignant. A thoughtful and clear-eyed contribution to the field, Us versus Them reveals the deep impact that competing racial meanings have on the fabric of community and the direction of neighborhood change.

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