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    Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs
    History, Politics, and Prospects

    Christopher Niedt (Edited by)

    9781439910498

    Hardback, published 7 June 2013

    252 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.666 kg

    How the suburbs can give rise to campaigns for progressive change

    1 Introduction
      Christopher Niedt

    PART I   Race, Class, and Exclusion in the Twenty-First Century

    2 Twenty-First-Century Suburban Demography: Increasing Diversity Yet Lingering Exclusion
       Nancy A. Denton and Joseph R. Gibbons
    3 The Suburban Geography of Moral Panic: Low-Income Housing and the Revanchist Fringe
       L. Owen Kirkpatrick and Casey Gallagher
    4 Protest on the Astroturf at Downtown Silver Spring: July 4, 2007
       June Williamson

    PART II   Revealing Activist Histories

    5 “In the Spirit of Equality”: Conflict, Dissonance, and the Potential for Transformative Educational Change
       Anne Galletta
    6 Not Quite Suburban: Progressive Activism in Postwar Chicago
       Robert Gioielli
    7 Fringe Politics: Suburban Expansion and the Mexican American Struggle for Alviso, California
       Aaron Cavin

    Part III  Sustaining Social Justice in the Diverse Suburb

    8 Maywood, Not Mayberry: Latinos and Suburbia in Los Angeles County
       Manuel Pastor
    9 Black, Brown, White, and Green: Race, Land Use, and Environmental Politics in a Changing Richmond
       Alex Schafran and Lisa M. Feldstein
    10 Public Archaeology and Sense of Place in Alexandria, Virginia: An Exploration of the Changing Significance of Fort Ward Park
        Douglas R. Appler
    11 First Suburbs and Nonprofit Housing: How Do Urban CDCs Develop Affordable Housing in Suburban Communities?
        JoAnna Mitchell-Brown
    12 The Future of Fair Housing in a Diverse Suburbia
         john a. powell and Jason Reece


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