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Laddar... Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the Cityav Mary Pattillo
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In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. There was a time when North Kenwood-Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the groundwork for a revitalized and self-consciously black neighborhood that continues to flourish today. But theirs is not a tale of easy consensus and political unity, and here Pattillo teases out the divergent class interests that have come to define black communities like North Kenwood-Oakland. She explores the often heated battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers as they clash over the social implications of gentrification. Along the way, Pattillo highlights the conflicted but crucial role that middle-class blacks play in transforming such districts as they negotiate between established centers of white economic and political power and the needs of their less fortunate black neighbors. "A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one."--Chicago Reader "To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows . . . turn to Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block."--Boston Globe Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Pattillo positions 2 ideas in this text: 1) that class differences b/w black newcomers and old timers in a community complicate the project of racial solidarity due to concepts of respectability and how they structure space in terms thing like the presence of public housing vs mixed income housing and what is 'appropriate' land use as well as power and leverage in term of negotiation with other stakeholders in the case of North Kenwood-Oakland. The second idea is that despite the very critical difference race still operates as a unifying category with newcomer middle class and old timer working class Black folk both mistrustful of incoming whites and government institutions.
An excellent read. ( )