Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the (In)Significance of 'Race', Paperback - Paul J. Maginn

Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neig...

Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning - Susan Thompson, Paul Maginn

Gilroy examines the ways in which media and commodity culture have become preeminent in our lives in the years since the 1960s and especially in th...

DescriptionSouth Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depict...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Andrew (University of the West of England, UK) TallonIllustration(s): 10 Line drawings, black and white; ...

One man's pursuit of justice over violence and racism in the nineteenth century.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Randolph Paul...

Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring,...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): David J. ConnorNumber of pages: 412Collection: Disability Studies in EducationPublication date: 2007...

An insightful and informative overview of how, in the time leading up to the founding of The Christian Community nearly one hundred years ago, Rudo...

DescriptionHow interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person ...

Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

DescriptionWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Ta...

This book explores the concept of 'home' in Liverpool over phases of regeneration from the World War Two. Based on qualitative research in the oral...

Reducere. How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and go...

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

Reducere. There is a continuing academic and policy interest in the potential for culture-based urban regeneration across the world. Such regeneration is int...

Contributor(s): Author: Willie James JenningsWhy has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social ...

How can Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) create the necessary conditions for urban regeneration? What is the role that BIDs have in entreprene...

This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of activists and students. Divided into five sections, it explores the innovative us...

"Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible task. But centrism i...

"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor...

UPDATED AND REVISED EDITION THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF POOR AND WORKING-CLASS WHITES, URBAN ETHNIC GROUPS AND BLACK PANTHERS ORGANIZING SIDE BY SIDE...

Now in a substantially revised and updated edition, this is the most authoritative available introduction to the history, forms and impact of comic...

Reducere. The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939-1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-e...

In this new edition of the standard text on the theory and practice of urban regeneration, there are case studies and examples of best practice thr...

Reducere. In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Shobana ShankarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 142 x 217 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Sales Director Stu Preston has just six months to improve his performance or find another job. Despite his boss's comment that he is not listening ...

Reducere. Many books on volunteerism and leadership are more theory than practice. Serving with Significance is full of easy-to-follow tips that can be imple...

The first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots act...

Worked to the Bone is a provocative examination of race and class in the United States and the mechanics of inequality. In an elegant and accessibl...

Description"This Is Islam" presents a lively introduction to a religion that has a dramatic history and plays a crucial role in the world today. De...

Boston Book ReviewAmerica's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race...

DescriptionQua loves Wynner. Wynner loves Qua. Easy enough, right? But Wynner comes with two brothers who can't stand Qua with their baby sister. I...

DescriptionThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international...

Reducere. Qua loves Wynner. Wynner loves Qua. Easy enough, right? But Wynner comes with two brothers who can't stand Qua with their baby sister. In spite of ...

Reducere. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even...

Reducere. Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic Church, Jason Berry and Gerald Renner's Vows of Silence follows the staggering trail...

Reducere. Race is our age's great taboo. Public intellectuals insist that it does not exist-that it's a "social construct" and biological differences between...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Korie (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,...

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised com...